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Image of Yann Martel
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
- Yann Martel
Collection: War
Image of John McCain
Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
- John McCain
Collection: War
Image of John Quincy Adams
The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonisation byany European powers? In the wars of the Europeanpowers inmattersrelating to ourselves, we have never taken any part; nor does it comport with our policy to do so.
- John Quincy Adams
Collection: War
Image of James Madison
In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.
- James Madison
Collection: War
Image of James Madison
In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
- James Madison
Collection: War
Image of Alexander McQueen
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
- Alexander McQueen
Collection: War
Image of Steve Martin
I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.
- Steve Martin
Collection: War
Image of Rory McIlroy
It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating - perhaps when I get the time again, I could pick up where I left off.
- Rory McIlroy
Collection: War
Image of Rich Lowry
There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.
- Rich Lowry
Collection: War
Image of James Madison
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying it on no principle of justice or honor, no usage of civilized nations, no precept of courtesy or humanity, have been infringed.
- James Madison
Collection: War
Image of Karl Marx
The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.
- Karl Marx
Collection: War
Image of George McGovern
It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.
- George McGovern
Collection: War
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: War
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: War
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: War
Image of Herman Melville
As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.
- Herman Melville
Collection: War
Image of H. L. Mencken
The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: War
Image of Cormac McCarthy
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: War
Image of Nelson Mandela
We can't win a war, but we can win an election.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: War
Image of Nelson Mandela
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: War
Image of Margaret Mead
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: War
Image of Marshall McLuhan
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
- Marshall McLuhan
Collection: War
Image of George Lucas
These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.
- George Lucas
Collection: War
Image of Bill Maher
Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I’m asking, is there any place you don’t want to intervene in?
- Bill Maher
Collection: War
Image of Herman Melville
Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.
- Herman Melville
Collection: War
Image of Herman Melville
A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.
- Herman Melville
Collection: War
Image of Norman Mailer
We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: War
Image of Dave Barry
If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.
- Dave Barry
Collection: War
Image of David O. McKay
Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.
- David O. McKay
Collection: War
Image of Bob Marley
When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.
- Bob Marley
Collection: War
Image of Martin Luther
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
- Martin Luther
Collection: War
Image of Dave Matthews
You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.
- Dave Matthews
Collection: War
Image of Bill Maher
It just seems like the culture war is over, and the gay kissers won.
- Bill Maher
Collection: War
Image of Natalie Clifford Barney
To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.
- Natalie Clifford Barney
Collection: War
Image of Terence McKenna
Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: War
Image of Chris Matthews
While Jeb Bush finds himself mired in the muck of an intramural fight in his own party over his remarks about the Iraq War, Hillary Clinton is sticking to the low-key strategy, and it looks like it`s working.
- Chris Matthews
Collection: War
Image of Angela Merkel
NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges
- Angela Merkel
Collection: War
Image of Nelson Mandela
We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: War
Image of Nelson Mandela
HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: War
Image of John McCain
But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.
- John McCain
Collection: War
Image of Max Lucado
I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.
- Max Lucado
Collection: War
Image of Donald Barthelme
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.
- Donald Barthelme
Collection: War
Image of Scott McClellan
Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.
- Scott McClellan
Collection: War
Image of Scott McClellan
It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.
- Scott McClellan
Collection: War
Image of Scott McClellan
As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.
- Scott McClellan
Collection: War
Image of Karl Marx
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
- Karl Marx
Collection: War
Image of Peter McWilliams
The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.
- Peter McWilliams
Collection: War
Image of Jackie Mason
All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.
- Jackie Mason
Collection: War