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Letter "W" » War
«The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill»
Author: Arthur Wellesley
| About:
War
| Keywords:
Art of War, Other side, The Art of War, the Hill, The other side
«The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.»
Author: John Foster Dulles
(Secretary)
| About:
Humanity,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
Human sacrifice, idealism, reserve, self-sacrifice, The Finest
«The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.»
«Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword»
«The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.»
«The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Interest,
Nations,
War
| Keywords:
emphasize, I Tried, Nixon, President Nixon, The National, unnatural, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Chance,
War
| Keywords:
hurts, mischance, multiplied by, multiplies, multiply, multiplying, wars, World War I
«The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Love,
Religion,
War
| Keywords:
activities, anti, extra, In Love and War, main, modern, rational, reasonable, Reasonable man, reasonably, rejoice, that is to say, The three
«This administration misled a nation into war by cherry-picking intelligence and stretching the truth beyond recognition.»
«Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
rarely, The War, war, win, won
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