Quotes about war
war men doors
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors? Thomas Hobbes
war fighting battle
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
war two hype
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
war preserves
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
war fighting battle
For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.
war men battle
Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
war men victory
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
war men survival
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
war men iraq
From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. Tim Ryan
war reality thinking
The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security. Tim Cook
warrior light
I'm a warrior for light. Thomas Kinkade
war taken errors
Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative Chronicles If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson
war hands perfect
Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.
war antiwar
The power of making war often prevents it.
war giving desire
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
war enemy foreign-policy
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
war europe turkeys
[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.
war facts bears
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.
war europe justice
War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.
war common-sense drug
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
war president may
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. Thomas Frank
war contentment world
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.
war today cold
I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946. Thomas Friedman
war two vietnam
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. Thom Gunn
war loss technology
Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology. Thomas Keating
war hands sovereign
It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen. Thomas Chalmers
war brain colonialism
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
war two iraq
The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us. Vince Cable
war kids iran
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.' Viggo Mortensen
war fighting people
As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.
war believe gay
Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held the House only since 2011 and have been out of power in the Senate and presidency since 2009. Victor Davis Hanson
war iron storm
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
war home order
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and Kurds to be butchered and not going to Baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. In Iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of Kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.