"War is a matter of vital importance to the state."
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"The Art of War is self-explanatory"
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"Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man."
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"Sometimes we want to engage in a war for financial reasons, for strategic reasons, for moral reasons, for all sorts of reasons, and it's important when we're making that decision to remind ourselves of what happens to the people on the front lines when we start this process."
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"I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties."
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"But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it."
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"Anytime I've had a big thing that's ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly."
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"We must end war before war ends us."
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"You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace."
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"It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general."
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"I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches."
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"War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing."
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"I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride."
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"Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)"
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"You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that."
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"If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one."
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"I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends."
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"Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait."
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"Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me."
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"All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)"
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