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War Quotes by Edmund Burke
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
- Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
- Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
- In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of…
- "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He…
- We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as…
- To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)…
- War never leaves where it found a nation.
- All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
More War Quotes
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- 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