"When you become a lover of what is, the war is over."
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"To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos."
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"All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING."
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"I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked."
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"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English."
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"Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out."
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"War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer."
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"We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?"
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"Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft."
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"The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment."
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"I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense."
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"I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?"
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"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
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"What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."
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"The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation."
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"If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant."
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"One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it."
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"Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals."
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"Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities."
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"Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former."
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