45 Quotes About Militarism
- Author Abraham Lincoln
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Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
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- Author Nigel Balchin
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If there were any justice," said Shale, "one ought to be allowed to use ardent militarists for experiments in peacetime, if one uses pacifists in war. But I suppose they wouldn't volunteer.
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- Author Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
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If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.
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- Author Frank Herbert
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But you invite ...”“I invite a bit of military nonsense.”“That’s what I ...”“Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson.” “What lesson?” “The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.
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- Author Jonathan Glover
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Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody.
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- Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.
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- Author Brian Spellman
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He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general.
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- Author Brian Spellman
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Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.
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- Author Barbara W. Tuchman
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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