951 private quotes tagged war

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“World War II was the last government program that really worked.” — George Will

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“Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” — Herodotus

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“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.” — John Andrew Holmes

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“It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.” — Geraldine Ferraro

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“In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.” — Georges Clemenceau

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“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” — William Hazlitt

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“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.” — Sarah Palin

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“Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?” — Benjamin Spock

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“People always make war when they say they love peace.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.” — Anatole Broyard

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“War is hell.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.” — John Randolph

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“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.” — William Westmoreland

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“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.” — Elizabeth I

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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.” — Havelock Ellis

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