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Image of John McCain
As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.
- John McCain
Collection: War
Image of Bill Maher
Democrats are lame. The media is lame. And Donald Trump hasn't even played his war card yet. You know, he could start a war and get a lot of support there.
- Bill Maher
Collection: War
Image of John Adams
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
- John Adams
Collection: War
Image of Larry McMurtry
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.
- Larry McMurtry
Collection: War
Image of Clare Boothe Luce
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Collection: War
Image of John McCain
We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.
- John McCain
Collection: War
Image of John Quincy Adams
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
- John Quincy Adams
Collection: War
Image of H. L. Mencken
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: War
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: War
Image of Marya Mannes
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.
- Marya Mannes
Collection: War
Image of Adel al-Jubeir
We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria. A coalition that was led by the United States, with Saudi Arabia being one of the first members of that coalition.
- Adel al-Jubeir
Collection: War
Image of Adel al-Jubeir
Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations, we will be prepared to participate with special forces. The Russians say their objective is to defeat Daesh, too. If the deployment of ground troops helps in the fight against Daesh, why is that World War III?
- Adel al-Jubeir
Collection: War
Image of Adel al-Jubeir
Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad? That would be a different story. But I don't think World War III is going to happen in Syria.
- Adel al-Jubeir
Collection: War
Image of Ignatius of Loyola
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
- Ignatius of Loyola
Collection: War
Image of Djuna Barnes
My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.
- Djuna Barnes
Collection: War
Image of H. L. Mencken
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: War
Image of James Russell Lowell
The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: War
Image of Nelson Mandela
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: War
Image of Milo Yiannopoulos
America has spent too long interfering oversees in too many other people's wars, and too much other stuff.
- Milo Yiannopoulos
Collection: War
Image of Milo Yiannopoulos
America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.
- Milo Yiannopoulos
Collection: War
Image of Herbert Marcuse
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. Pbscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace.
- Herbert Marcuse
Collection: War
Image of Hilary Mantel
No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.
- Hilary Mantel
Collection: War
Image of Elliott Colla
Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new occupation force. It's the corruption of that moment that I am really interested in.
- Elliott Colla
Collection: War
Image of Rachel Maddow
Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He`s unlike anybody else in American life. In his public life and in his heroics in war. He`s a singular figure in American life and American history. I think for everybody who has ever had a political difference with him that just instantly evaporates in the face of wanting the best for him because of cancer.
- Rachel Maddow
Collection: War
Image of Joseph de Maistre
War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.
- Joseph de Maistre
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
I came through and I shall return.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: War
Image of Bill Maher
It's a little strange when you have never been to war, and you eye-roll about a guy who's got shrapnel still in his body, as Chuck Hagel does.
- Bill Maher
Collection: War
Image of Bill Maher
Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks.
- Bill Maher
Collection: War
Image of Dave Barry
The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give me a break. Especially the marijuana thing.
- Dave Barry
Collection: War
Image of David McCullough
Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.
- David McCullough
Collection: War
Image of David McCullough
It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
- David McCullough
Collection: War
Image of Dave Barry
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.
- Dave Barry
Collection: War
Image of Jack London
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.
- Jack London
Collection: War
Image of Jack London
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
- Jack London
Collection: War
Image of Chris Matthews
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on a boat and send them back where they came from?' You know, he says it in polite language, but that's what Romney's been saying, 'Get home where you came from, start all over again.'
- Chris Matthews
Collection: War
Image of Peter Matthiessen
It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultural ditches because they were superb farmers. That was very heavy lifting work. But then they just preened themselves, and put bird-of-paradise plumes [in their hair], and smoked dope.
- Peter Matthiessen
Collection: War
Image of James M Strock
Woodrow Wilson is reported to have told a Princeton colleague, shortly after the 1912 election, "It would be an irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign problems, for all my preparation has been in domestic matters." In the event, Wilson's early months were marked by substantial domestic legislative accomplishment. Unfortunately, after Europe plunged into the Great War in August 1914, Wilson's leadership was uncertain.
- James M Strock
Collection: War
Image of James Russell Lowell
Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: War
Image of James Russell Lowell
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: War
Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War