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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Woodrow Wilson

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Woodrow Wilson

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

Ambrose Bierce

The level of violence is too public. This isn't just about squaring accounts. This is about gang warfare that clearly indicates problems for public control.

Federico Estevez

Through creative actions, both the Winter of Our Discontent and Lights Out Chicago will press for the payment of war reparations by the U.S. to Iraq, for the damage inflicted by the past 15 years of economic and military warfare.

Joel Gulledge

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

Ambrose Bierce

They are simply revealing who they are, and they are making it known to those of us what death-tax repeal is really about. It's about class warfare, and it's about a group of people whose belief system is that one of government's jobs is to take property away from those who have gathered property in their lifetime and redistribute it.

Dick Patten

It could be, in some ways, a little easier for someone who wasn't part of that trench warfare.

Scott Brison

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

Michael Badnarik

One great advantage (of deploying together) was being able to help mentor him and see his accomplishments, such as getting his warfare pin and putting on third class. Another advantage was having family with me during Christmas and New Year while deployed. I think the experience was great for both of us.

Gregory R. Estes

I make shields that are reminiscent of what the Indians used in warfare. They could actually protect a person before guns came along, but afterwards it didn't do any good.

Dale Carson

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

Yasser Arafat

In modern warfare, however, even a strong defense requires strike warfare and offensive options.

Larry Wortzel

When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

Oren Lyons, Jr.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

Pope Pius XI

Humility is the best form of warfare; it is the only thing the enemy cannot do.

Keri Harvey

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.

Albert Speer

Quill, coming up as a young man in the Irish Republican Army, learned something about guerrilla warfare. The first rule in guerrilla warfare is you never take on your opponent when he's in a stronger position.

Robert Snyder

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

Joachim Du Bellay

It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.

Arthur Middleton

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun Tzu

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

Dick Morris

Warfare in the 21st century is far less deadly than it was half a century ago. The wars that dominated the headlines of the 1990s were real - and brutal - enough. But the global media have largely ignored the 100-odd conflicts that have quietly ended since 1988. During this period, more wars stopped than started.

Andrew Mack

There is a clear difference between disaster relief operations and warfare. Our armed forces are designed to protect us from enemies, not protect us from fires, floods and hurricanes.

Bruce Lawlor

Attempting to play both the race and the class-warfare cards.

Charlie Rangel

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

Caleb Carr

CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet. In controversy with the facile tongue - That bloodless warfare of the old and young - So seek your adversary to engage That on himself he shall exhaust his rage, And, like a snake that's fastened to the ground, With his own fangs inflict the fatal .

Ambrose Bierce

It was 25 to life, mostly towards gang warfare and shooting police officers so I had to turn him away.

Chris Gilbert

Playing against a team with Ian Chappell as a captain turns cricket match into gang warfare.

Mike Brearley

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

Norm Coleman

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped.

George Orwell

The entire Marine force was designed around the concept of amphibious warfare, which is a good deal different from the kind of conflict they're fighting in Iraq today, hundreds of miles from the sea. The Marines are a light force; they kick in the door but they are not supposed to occupy all the rooms.

Loren Thompson

You can't do counterinsurgency warfare without a large army. The operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are largely army affairs.

Steve Kosiak

Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.

Sally Kempton

Because you're able to see a spectral fingerprint of a chemical, you could use this technology to uniquely identify chemicals that would be associated with chemical warfare agents.

Art Sedlacek

The way we did it was really through trench warfare and really hard work. It wasn't easy, and we had to help convince the airlines that they could make a buck here.

Bill Wyatt

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Margaret Mead

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Peggy Noonan

The challenges that I see at the high end are anti-submarine warfare. There are about 140 diesel submarines that operate in the Pacific. We, as a Navy, are good at anti-submarine warfare. We can always get better, and that's what we're doing because we have to be able to dominate that growing submarine capability.

Adm. Gary Roughead

This network is real, and partisan diplomacy and selective anti-terrorism warfare will only let loose this Frankenstein.

Rajeev Sharma

Clearly the Democratic primaries have started early, and there appears to be a division within the party over class warfare.

Claire Buchan

He says it's gang warfare inside the Superdome. There's like 12 National Guard guys - not enough, ... They have water, but they are not eating because they don't want to have to use the bathroom, because it's so horrible.

Kathy Murray

You're banking on getting in and seizing your objectives -- finding Saddam, for instance -- and taking over a city [without] getting bogged down in urban warfare.

Eric Schmitt

I wanted to write about humanity, inhumanity and the cost of warfare.... And what we wanted to do on the show is tell that story of humanity, where you can't tell where one begins and another ends.

Eric Haney

Since we face a guerrilla warfare, we have to take measures which are counter-guerrilla, ... This is one of the relative advantages of the Israeli Defense Forces, and we are going to exercise them, to use them on the ground.

Ephraim Sneh

[The information-warfare strategy will be detailed in a defense plan called] OPLAN 3600 ... unprecedented cooperation with commercial enterprises and other organizations.

Edward Anderson

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Ed Asner