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war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. Charles Caleb Colton
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? Charles Dickens
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
despotism tyranny can-do
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. Alexis de Tocqueville
despotism cracked
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be. Arabella Weir
despotism submit
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. William Floyd
despotism extremes moderate neither
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Alexander Hamilton
despotism ends unlimited
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism. Fyodor Dostoevsky
despotism history incredible national throwing tyranny
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride. Mike Crapo
despotism formidable
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. Georg C. Lichtenberg
despotism
Fear must rule in a despotism. Lajos Kossuth
despotism states despots
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many. Max Stirner