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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

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I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument...

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For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

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Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

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In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack.. the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.

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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

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People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

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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.

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Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

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In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

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Imagination rules the world.

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It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

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Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale.

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