war Quotes

“In a cold as in a hot war it pays to know the enemy — not least because at some time in the future you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years

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“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“He in peace is wounded, not in war.”

― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

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“I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“True warfare is rarer in Nature than cannibalism.”

― T. H. White, The Once and Future King

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“Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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