"He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces."
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"He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated."
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"Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical."
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"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
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"A starving army is actually worse than none."
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"Before all else, be armed."
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"A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain."
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"Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours."
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"For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more."
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"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice."
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"Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad."
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"There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels."
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"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
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"There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness."
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"As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery."
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"This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system."
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"There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army."
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"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."
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"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."
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"Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war."
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