War Quotes - Page 30

• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Personality, Suffering

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin

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• Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Army, Order, Discipline

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• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

  James Madison

  Peace, Government, Branches

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.43, University of Virginia Press

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• It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

  Sun Tzu

  Following Instructions, Giving, Enemy

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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• Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Punishment, Ends

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

  Sun Tzu

  Moving, Army, Aquariums

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.213, Adams Media

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• The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Peace, Army, British Navy

  "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.

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• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Military, Army

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

  Sun Tzu

  Clever, Fighting, Army

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!

  Conrad III of Germany

  Brother, Fighting, Heaven

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• The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.

  Robert Guiscard

  Faithful, Overcoming, Band

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• To whom God will, there be the victory.

  William Shakespeare

  Victory, Gods Will, Medieval War

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Plays of William Shakspeare”, p.239

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• Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, World, Arms

  'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

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• We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Trying, Lasts

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• One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Powerful, Southern, Population

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Fire, Wind

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• War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Presidential, Today

  "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  Abba Eban

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

  George Washington

  Peace, Enemy, Produce

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.102

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• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Attitude, Fear, Failure

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• From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

  Denis Diderot

  Peace, Tyrants, Steps

  "Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu". A translation and adaptation of "Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit" by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, 1745.

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• War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Funny, Tomorrow, Poor

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• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, Fall, Inspiration

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Country, Sleep

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Order, America

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.163, Algora Publishing

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