William Butler Yeats Quotes, Girl Quotes, War Quotes

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

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We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

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One bad general is worth two good ones.

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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

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The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

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There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

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A starving army is actually worse than none.

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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

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In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

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The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

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Ability is nothing without opportunity.

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I think that there is a particular mindset that was on display in the run-up to the Iraq war that continues to this day. Some of the folks who were involved in that decision either don't remember what they said or are entirely unapologetic about the results, but that views the Middle East as a place where force and intimidation will deliver on the security interests that we have, and that it is not possible for us to at least test the possibility of diplomacy.

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The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

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