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I would rather wear out than rust out.
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
God is on the side of the big battalions.
What, do they run already? Then I die happy.
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.
Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
The 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked out on the third. Do we really want to roll those dice again?
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present.
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime, and therefore he is considered by Sunni militants to be an apostate, and he is inflicting a total war on his Sunni population.
Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut.