"God is on the side with the best artillery"
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"A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist."
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"I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war."
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"Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
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"War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else."
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"A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow."
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"We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations"
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"We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war."
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"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
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"Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war"
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"Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world."
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"Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead."
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"A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»"
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"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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"I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed."
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"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding."
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"The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel.""
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