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- Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
- Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
- Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to…
- I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness…
- I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.
- I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
- I came through and I shall return.
- It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to…
- I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.
- Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he…
- The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
- It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an…
- Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry…
- In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
- It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
- I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a…
- Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been…
- Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not…
- Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very…
- This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and…
- It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an…
- We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We…
- In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
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- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood