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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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- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
- Made
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
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I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
- Blankets
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
- Loss
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
- Power
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The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into the service of the United States. He holds this power in time of peace as well as in time of war.
- Passion
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It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.
- Avert
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- Nov 07, 2020
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
- Men
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Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020