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Letter "W" » War
«In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.»
Author: John Gay
(Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Heroism,
War
| Keywords:
outnumber, outnumbered, outnumbers
«It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.»
Author: Ted Kennedy
| About:
Peace,
Violence,
War
| Keywords:
corps, Marine, Marines, Peace Corps, send in
«It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.»
Author: Thomas Stonewall Jackson
| About:
War
«It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace.»
«It fell like a tear from my eye, flying machine so up high.Well... there goes the neighborhood.»
Author: Brandon Boyd
| About:
War
| Keywords:
flying, Flying machine, neighborhood, neighborhoods, tear
«In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.»
«It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
War
«It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to weaken truth, and serve only to make it stronger. All the lights of truth are powerless to stop violence, and serve only»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
Long War, powerless, waging
«It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.»
«In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
attended, bodyguard, bodyguards, wartime
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