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

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Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power read more

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

by Harry S. Truman Found in: War Quotes,
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It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.

It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.

by Robert E. Lee Found in: War Quotes,
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Oft he that doth abide
Is cause of his own paine,
But he that flieth in good read more

Oft he that doth abide
Is cause of his own paine,
But he that flieth in good tide
Perhaps may fight again.

by Unattributed Author 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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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with read more

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Found in: War Quotes,
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of read more

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

by Norman Cousins Found in: War Quotes,
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'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.

'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.

by Samuel James Adams Found in: War Quotes,
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