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" A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. "

George S. Patton

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Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

" This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war. "

" As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. "

John Stuart Mill

" People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times. "

Steven Spielberg

" The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster. "

John C. Calhoun

" Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. "

George S. Patton

" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "

" Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. "

" War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. "

Winston Churchill

" Better to fight for something than live for nothing. "

George S. Patton

" Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.' "

" You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. "

Jeannette Rankin

" World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. "

Richard Holbrooke

" You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. "

" The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. "

" Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. "

" In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate. "

" Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. "

" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "

George McGovern

" Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. "

" War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. "

George Washington

" The war on drugs is a war against the communities. "

" There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. "

" Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter. "

" All oppression creates a state of war. "

Simone de Beauvoir

" Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. "

Robert M. La Follette

" The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. "

Van Wyck Brooks

" I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. "

Ernest Hemingway

" War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. "