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We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.
For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.
We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
Kofi Annan's kangaroo court [is] a clear and present danger to the war on terror and to Americans fighting it all over the world.
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.
War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.
Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.
War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.
Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.
The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans.
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.