Famous Quotes & Sayings

Argus Hamilton

President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.

Anthony Weiner

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

Barbara Lee

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl von Clausewitz

The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Carl von Clausewitz

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Carl von Clausewitz

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Bible Bible

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? / So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Brandon Sanderson

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

Barbara Lee

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

Benito Mussolini

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

Juvenal

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

Juvenal

There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Al Franken

During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

Tony Benn

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Strobe Talbott

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

Esther Hicks

You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

Hugo Chavez

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

Pythagoras

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

John Oliver

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Joseph Chamberlain

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.