Quotes about war
war taken hero
What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero. Rachel Maddow
war two empowering
after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.
war fighting men
the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.
war iraq effort
David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General. Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.
war people trying
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war. R. Lee Ermey
war iraq agendas
Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda. Mike Huckabee
war believe eye
I truly believe that America's best days are still ahead of her. And for this, I am thankful to God. I am thankful that one day the war on terror will end, not because we have lost, but because we have won! I am thankful that one day our economy will rebound, not because of governmental micro-management, but as a result of America's entrepreneurial resolve. I am thankful that one day the born and the unborn will be equal under the eyes of the law in every state.
war order people
Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy. Niall Ferguson
war enemy victory
Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force. Niccolo Machiavelli
war men order
Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
war ends please
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
war enemy matter
Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.
war quality unnecessary
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
war order should
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.
war thieves
War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.
war philosophical arms
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
war uprising errors
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
war evil able
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
war risk should
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
war soldier gold
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
war army order
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
war people affection
The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
war thieves vicious
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
war prophet unarmed
Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]
war soldier gold
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.
war men political
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
war evil causes
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
war taken promise
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
war support promise
If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!
war long people
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over. Nevil Shute
war government support
In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power. They have given the Polish Government an assurance to this effect. I may add that the French Government have authorized me to make it plain that they stand in the same position in this matter. Neville Chamberlain
war mean trying
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
war history may
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.