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Letter "W" » War
«The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
bastard, country, object, The Object of, To Die For, war
«The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy»
Author: Louis Ferdinand Celine
| About:
Heroism,
War
| Keywords:
appeals, enormously, heroism, The War, wealthy
«The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.»
«The purpose of all wars...is peace.»
«The real war will never get in the books»
«The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.»
«The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
War
| Keywords:
food, maintenance, materials, morale, sinew, sinews
«The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace»
«The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Principles,
War
| Keywords:
effected, stratagem, stratagems
«The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Victory,
War
| Keywords:
air force, Air Forces, bomber, bombers, fighters, In the Navy, navy, The War
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