War Quotes

• "I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."
  By: Abraham Lincoln
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• "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
  By: Jonathan Kozol
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• "The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."
  By: George Frost Kennan
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• "I have not yet begun to fight!"
  By: John Paul Jones
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• "I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."
  By: Lyndon Baines Johnson
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• "Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."
  By: Victor Hugo
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• "Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom."
  By: Dee W. Hock
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• "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
  By: Ernest Miller Hemingway
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• "There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything."
  By: Arnold H. Glasgow
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• "Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."
  By: William S. Gilbert
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• "It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
  By: André Gide
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• "God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them."
  By: Kahlil Gibran
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• "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
  By: Kahlil Gibran
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• "On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction."
  By: A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
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