- Divided
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- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The consensus for a strong, independent Executive arose from the Framers' experience in the Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation. They had seen that the War had almost been lost and was a bumbling enterprise because of the lack of strong Executive leadership.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
- Foreseeable
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- Nov 07, 2020
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020