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Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. read more
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these read more
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old read more
O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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.
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
