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Combat Quotes by Charles Tilly
- Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort…
- Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens...
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- We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams
- For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially… — Kathryn Bigelow
- I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. — Garth Brooks
- I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. — Mel Brooks
- I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat. — George H. W. Bush
- I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from… — Buzz Aldrin
- The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the… — Albert Camus
- There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. — Jimmy Carter
- Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. — Miguel de Cervantes
- The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field… — Tom Clancy
- Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and… — Hillary Clinton
- When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit,… — Watchman Nee