"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."

War, Peace

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"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."

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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

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"Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."

Stephen King, American Author

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"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."

Stephen King, American Author

War, Regret, Today, Future

"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"

Stephen King, American Author

War, Weapon, Violence, Truth, Realization

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"I don't fight without reason. I don't want war without end."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

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"Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway."

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"I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed."

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"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."

"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

"And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder."

"I don't fight without reason. I don't want war without end."

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway."

"I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed."

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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

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"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect."