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War Quotes by Rick Atkinson
- In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically, and convinced himself…
- The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the…
- Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving…
- Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
- The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges…
- Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That…
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- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare