War Quotes - Page 86

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.

Awards that ignore me are losers.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

The secret of war lies in the communications.

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting into "war" and "death" and put it into life and true justice.

I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before. In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.