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Image of Abraham Lincoln
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Abraham Lincoln
But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Abraham Lincoln
It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Satish Kumar
Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.
- Satish Kumar
Collection: War
Image of Gaspar Noe
I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.
- Gaspar Noe
Collection: War
Image of Gaspar Noe
Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.
- Gaspar Noe
Collection: War
Image of Abraham Lincoln
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Penelope Lively
All history, of course, is the history of wars.
- Penelope Lively
Collection: War
Image of Charles Krauthammer
Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.
- Charles Krauthammer
Collection: War
Image of Charles Krauthammer
Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It's not clear if we can even maintain our embassy in Yemen, let alone conduct operations against AQAP. And second, because growing Iranian hegemony is a mortal threat to our allies and interests in the entire Middle East.
- Charles Krauthammer
Collection: War
Image of C. S. Lewis
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
Teach him to deny himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
I will attack no matter what and win the war!
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
Any victory would be dear at such a price.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Robert E. Lee
Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.
- Robert E. Lee
Collection: War
Image of Jhumpa Lahiri
War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.
- Jhumpa Lahiri
Collection: War
Image of David Letterman
Have you folks been following the controversy with John Kerry and his service in Vietnam and the Swift Boat campaign? It all took place in Vietnam and now it just won't go away. I was thinking about this - if John Kerry had just ducked the war like everybody else he wouldn't have this trouble.
- David Letterman
Collection: War
Image of Walter Lippmann
It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.
- Walter Lippmann
Collection: War
Image of C. S. Lewis
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: War
Image of Abraham Lincoln
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Abraham Lincoln
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Abraham Lincoln
Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Peter Kropotkin
War is the usual condition of Europe.
- Peter Kropotkin
Collection: War
Image of Arthur Koestler
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.
- Arthur Koestler
Collection: War
Image of C. S. Lewis
In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: War
Image of Tanith Lee
I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.
- Tanith Lee
Collection: War
Image of Laura Lippman
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.
- Laura Lippman
Collection: War
Image of Barbara Kingsolver
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Collection: War
Image of John Lennon
When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.
- John Lennon
Collection: War
Image of Stephen King
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.
- Stephen King
Collection: War
Image of David Letterman
President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.
- David Letterman
Collection: War
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: War
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: War
Image of Rush Limbaugh
I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus how much of it is just ignored or looked back on with mockery or insincerity or what have you. But it was one of the most crucially important events in all of human history in terms of the preservation of freedom and liberty and the notion of democracy and things associated with it.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: War
Image of Rudyard Kipling
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
- Rudyard Kipling
Collection: War
Image of Jaron Lanier
Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.
- Jaron Lanier
Collection: War
Image of Jaron Lanier
I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.
- Jaron Lanier
Collection: War
Image of Charles Lamb
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.
- Charles Lamb
Collection: War
Image of John Locke
All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
- John Locke
Collection: War
Image of Rush Limbaugh
I believe the number is 70% of the world's refugees since World War II have been taken in by the United States. Every year, year in, year out, the United States admits more legal immigrants than the rest of the world combined. The United States has granted amnesty before to three million illegals and appears prepared to do it again.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: War
Image of Abraham Lincoln
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: War
Image of Walter Lippmann
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
- Walter Lippmann
Collection: War
Image of Walter Lippmann
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
- Walter Lippmann
Collection: War