“The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. And I ain't never did… — Tupac Copy Share Image
Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
“I needed to talk to my dad. My dad who had been to war, who had seen its horrors, who suffered from… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines… — Peter Maass Copy Share Image
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
“The fundamental conflict in the spiritual quest is that ego desires spiritual enlightenment, but ego can never achieve spiritual enlightenment. Self cannot… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his… — John McCain Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
“...any eye at all practiced in the signs of a frontier warfare, might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“Those scars, received in battle as a soldier, proved his bravery and honor. It was another example of him protecting others, the… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“All the people speak of a hero like a ghost or a sleeping saint, or a pretender. It would almost make you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since Gone With… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
What if I say that in my view about the least Christian thing you could do is what the Republican party are… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it. It… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“if a fox attacks her? She’s only learned basic battle moves. She may have been gone all night. I should have kept… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic -… — Tomas Young Copy Share Image
“ Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“Quote of the day:Quote of the day: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if… — William Odom Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
