War Quotes - Page 40

• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  Earl Browder

  Breaking Silence, Utterance, Lines

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• I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Christian, Unification Church, Enemy

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• Killing is the payoff of war.

  Morley Safer

  Killing, Payoff

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• No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  People, Saving, Proud

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• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  Angel, Blow, Law

  John Donne, John Daniel Thieme (2014). “John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme”, p.23, Vicarage Hill Press

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• And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

  Boris Pasternak

  Death, Real, Lying

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• We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Learning, School

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.619, Best Books on

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• The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

  Lytton Strachey

  Peace, Brilliant, Outbreaks

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

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• The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

  Arthur Keith

  Humanity, World, Used

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

  Wally Schirra

  Hero, Hunting, Years

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• A lot of times I have the song inside of me and I have to fight to get it out. I'm a very visual person, so I can see the song but I can't hear it. But I think that if your music becomes a war for it to happen, in the end there's a certain kind of aggression in the music. And I think that's a lot more interesting.

  Zola Jesus

  Song, Writing, Fighting

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• The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

  Marvin Bell

  Motivational, Privilege, Preserves

  Marvin Bell (2013). “Mars Being Red”, p.3, Copper Canyon Press

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• I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Navy, Korean, Korean War

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• I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

  John Davis Long

  Gun, Men, Yesterday

  John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”

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• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Hideki Tojo

  Strong, Japan, Navy

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• My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

  Gregory Corso

  Father, Home, Navy

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• Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Home, Men, Hands

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• Any victory would be dear at such a price.

  Robert E. Lee

  Victory, Would Be, Dear

  Robert E. Lee, Civil War Classics (2014). “Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (Civil War Classics)”, p.122, Diversion Books

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• Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

  John S. Mosby

  Army, Men, Three

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• Mars is not an aesthetic God.

  John Brown Gordon

  Civil War, Mars, Aesthetic

  John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”

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• Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

  Charles Sumner

  Believe, Fall, Unions

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• The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.

  P. G. T. Beauregard

  Running, Enemy, Bulls

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• We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Blood, Batteries, Infantry

  "Bethel to Sharpsburg".

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• It was not war, it was murder.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Civil War, Murder

  Daniel Harvey Hill (1899). “North Carolina”

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• I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

  Emory Upton

  Lying, Battle, Together

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