#war

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#affluence #ancient #comfort #culture #forced

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#bleeds #contagion #death #hell #lets

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#certain #circumstances #end #human #human wisdom

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#afghanistan #being #bringing #change #environment

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#chance #fact #get #i #lot

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#audience #award #best #else #gotten

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents? ↗

— Carl Paladino

#bit #died #entitled #families #ground

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#generation #great #great depression #great war #had

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#awful #beginning #brighter #coming #dark

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#chief #commander #law #need #professor