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"No study is possible on the battlefield."
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"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."
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"Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even given him the reputation of a brave man - and there was something in it that he was unable to understand. "So they're even more afraid than we are!" he thought. "So that's all there is to so-called heroism? And did I really do it for the fatherland? And what harm had he done, with his dimple and his light blue eyes? But how frightened he was! He thought I'd kill him. Why should I kill him? My hand faltered. And they gave me the St. George Cross. I understand nothing, nothing!"
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"One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories."
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"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."
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"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."
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"Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war."
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"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."
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"In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective."
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"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack."
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"No study is possible on the battlefield."
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"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory."
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"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."
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"The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious."
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"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
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"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
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