If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, the... -Ulysses S. Grant

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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Ulysses S. Grant , President
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the wh...
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on....
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace....
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor....
Let us have peace....
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are s...
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again....
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins....
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our g...

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The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences....
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first....
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Cen...
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services....
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, wh...
Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demoniz...
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature....
What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?...