"An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness."
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"100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this."
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"We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence."
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"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."
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"The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery."
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"Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes."
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"England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation."
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"There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war."
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"I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation."
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"The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away."
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"Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping."
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"The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy."
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"Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything."
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"One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others."
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"The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches."
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"The more laws, the less justice."
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"Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot."
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"When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator."
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"The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action."
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"Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy."
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