Sun Tzu Quotes, Art Quotes, War Quotes

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Heart Quotes

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

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Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Fool Quotes

National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , War Quotes , Simple Quotes

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Pain Quotes , War Quotes

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.

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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , War Quotes , Past Quotes

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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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Army Quotes

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Struggle Quotes

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , War Quotes , Mean Quotes

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

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Tags : A. J. P. Taylor Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , War Quotes , Dirty Quotes

Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein.... don't follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , War Quotes , Order Quotes

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Political Quotes

From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

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