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«Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Military,
War
| Keywords:
battles, generals, Germans, grip, peoples, prepare for, The Military
«Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?»
«Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
Honor,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
accorded, advance, century, contribution, crediting, gladly, hence, line of credit, yield
«But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.»
«Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
bury, Croesus, fathers, sons
«Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masks»
«Cards are war, in disguise of a sport»
«Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity,
Country,
Doctrine,
Forgiveness,
Humility,
Love,
Punishment,
Violence,
War
| Keywords:
doctrine, haughtiness, incompatible
«By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Etiquette,
War
| Keywords:
correspondent, correspondents, dictate, etiquette, permitted, rank
«Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.»
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