"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."

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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

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"We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac."

June Carter Cash, American Musician

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"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

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"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

War, America, American, Intellectuals

"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

War, End, Fighting, Spirit

"During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front."

Philip Gibbs, British Journalist

War, Conflict, Months, News

"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want."

Tom Cruise, American Actor

War, People, Insanity, Want

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

War, Man, Weapons

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

War, Endurance, Humanity, Conflict

"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

Gregory Bateson, British Scientist

War, Fear, Fact

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"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"

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"Power ought to serve as a check to power."

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"When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy."

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"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."

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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

"We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac."

"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."

"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

"During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front."

"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want."

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

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"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."

"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."

"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"

"Power ought to serve as a check to power."

"When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy."

"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."

"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."

"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

"Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans."