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    Let who will boast their courage in the field,
    I find but little safety from my shield,
    Nature's, not honour's law we must obey:
    This made me cast my useless shield away.

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We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression
will achieve nothing but failure.

We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression
will achieve nothing but failure.

by Unattributed Author Found in: War Quotes,
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War is hell.

War is hell.

by William Tecumseh Sherman Found in: War Quotes,
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The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an
indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be read more

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an
indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be
repeatedly emphasized.

by Friedrich Von Bernhardi Found in: War Quotes,
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The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

by Robert Anton Wilson Found in: War Quotes,
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

by Dame Rebecca West Found in: War Quotes,
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To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer read more

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

by Tzu Sun Found in: War Quotes,
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All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and read more

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

by Gerald R. Ford Found in: War Quotes,
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War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, read more

War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.

by Walter Millis Found in: War Quotes,
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Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment read more

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

by Thucydides Found in: War Quotes,
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