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#war

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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. ↗


— Lucretius


#encounters #great #over #part #peril

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same. ↗


— Joanna Lumley


#because #birth #carry #eight #gave

These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward. ↗


— Bill Luther


#contribute #felt #forward #go #i

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ↗


— Douglas MacArthur


#destructiveness #disputes #few #few men #foe

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ↗


— Niccolo Machiavelli


#consider #contrive #execute #furnishes #gives

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer. ↗


— Charles Mackay


#eyes #glory #good #good time #iniquity

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing. ↗


— Patrick Macnee


#allowed #because #censored #doing #just

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. ↗


— James Madison


#burdens #declared #fruits #government #instead

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. ↗


— James Madison


#case #cause #decide #declaring #executive

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. ↗


— John Mahoney


#dreary #everything #first #gray #i






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