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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We’ve blunted the Taliban’s momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.