Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Army Quotes, Giving Quotes

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

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Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

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So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.

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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

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Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

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The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

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Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

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Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

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He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

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I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.

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In warfare, first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured.

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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