Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, War Quotes, Arrows Quotes

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

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You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Civil War Quotes

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , War Quotes , Errors Quotes

The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.

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

One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me.

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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , War Quotes , Contentment Quotes

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Water Quotes

When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Horse Quotes , War Quotes

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , War Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Don't go looking for trouble.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , War Quotes

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

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And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Eye Quotes

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Positive Quotes , War Quotes

We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.

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In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes

The message is for everybody who wears the uniform: get ready. The United States will do what it takes to win this war... And this is an administration that is going to dedicate ourselves to winning that war.

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

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

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Tags : Adam Michnik Quotes , Country Quotes , War Quotes