- Face
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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.
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- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama is more and more beginning to look like the hypocrite-in-chief when it comes to the war on terrorism. All sorts of things that he criticized the president for, he's actually continued and even extended. This drone attack program, he's got it at the highest level ever.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020