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• The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Peace, Fall, Rome

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• To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, Office, Matter

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• That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

  Noel Coward

  Hands, Feelings, Together

  Noel Coward (1952). “Play Parade”

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• The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, Sacrifice, Men

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• I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

  William Gibson

  Military, Technology, Reality

  "I don't have a modem". Interview with Dan Josefsson, www.josefsson.net. November 23, 1994.

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• I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, Bad Ass, Men

  "A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession". Book by Alfred Vagts, p. 27., 1937.

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• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  A. E. Housman

  Life, Lying, Men

  More Poems (1936) no. 36

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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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Democracies Have

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Army, Umpires

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Victory, Settling

  Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

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• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, Philosophical, Enemy

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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• One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Risk, Should, Fortune

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• He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

  Louis XI of France

  Hypocrisy, Reign, Can Not

  "Hist. de France", Volume II, (p. 30) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 682-686), 1922.

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• Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

  Orderic Vitalis

  Triumph, East, Pilgrimage

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• To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.

  Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

  Three, More Money, Three Things

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• Strike up the drum and march courageously.

  Christopher Marlowe

  March, Strikes, Medieval War

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.192, Delphi Classics

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• Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

  William Shakespeare

  Army, Faces, Royal

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.205, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sorrow, Thrones

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.73

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• So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

  Hernando Cortes

  Children, Heart, Men

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• They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

  Hernando Cortes

  Arrows, Stones, Javelin

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• Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

  Hernando Cortes

  Firsts, Ifs, Died

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• It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

  Hernando Cortes

  Glimpse, Firsts, Wonderful

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• God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Kings, Roots

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• Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!

  Pope Urban II

  Journey, Heaven, Kingdoms

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• Fight to the last gasp.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Lasts

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