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" The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. "
Robert E. Lee
War
Wisdom
Been
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" 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
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Me
Love
" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "
Andrew Jackson
War
Blessing
Compared
" War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. "
Chiang Kai-shek
Spirit
Air Force
Group
" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "
Kurt Vonnegut
World
Depression
Great
" I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. "
Steven Spielberg
Heroes
Boots
War
" We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. "
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Color
Black
Me
" Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations. "
Synyster Gates
Together
War
Rain
" War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. "
Ludwig von Mises
Like
War
Prosperity
" A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. "
Robert E. Lee
Government
Sword
People
" The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes. "
Carl von Clausewitz
Political
War
Goal
" There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. "
Reinhold Niebuhr
Consequences
War
Result
" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "
Herbert Hoover
Youth
War
Older
" In war there is no substitute for victory. "
Douglas MacArthur
Victory
Substitute
War
" You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. "
Jeannette Rankin
You
Earthquake
More
" I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. "
Shel Silverstein
Will
Everyone
War
" War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. "
George Washington
War
Will
Accomplish
" 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
Party
Divine
War
" You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. "
Charles Lindbergh
Looking
World
Looking Back
" The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. "
Kim Il-sung
Defeat
Hate
Important
" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "
George Orwell
Good
Human
Human Being
" The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. "
Ida Tarbell
War
Everything
First
" If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back. "
Robert E. Lee
Man
Face
You
" You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands. "
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Go
Sword
You
" If we don't end war, war will end us. "
H. G. Wells
War
Us
Will
" I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can. "
Hans Blix
Trying
Autumn
Me
" Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. "
Sun Tzu
Enemy
Strategy
Supreme
" The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. "
Robert E. Lee
Honesty Is
Best
Saying
" So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier. "
Rick Warren
Say
Would
War
" Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. "
Carl von Clausewitz
Difficult
Very
War