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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , War Quotes , Acquisition Quotes

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

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Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

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

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The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

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In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Drinking Quotes

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power.

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We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , War Quotes , Winning Quotes

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , War Quotes , Soldier Quotes

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , War Quotes , Blood Quotes

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , War Quotes , Immature Quotes

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , War Quotes , Commitment Quotes

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

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Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

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Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

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