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    "I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter
    tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and
    lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot
    bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from
    one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have
    had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant
    thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the
    drawers."

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As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on read more

As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: War Quotes,
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O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old read more

O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.

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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is read more

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

by Alan Watts Found in: War Quotes,
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

by Sir Winston Churchill Found in: War Quotes,
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And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him
that girdeth on his harness boast read more

And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him
that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it
off.

by Bible Found in: Soldiers Quotes,
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

by Albert Pike Found in: War Quotes,
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Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, read more

Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted

by Francis Quarles Found in: Soldiers Quotes,
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Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide
another, that he may retire the sooner out of read more

Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide
another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.

by Aristides ("the Just") Found in: War Quotes,
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so read more

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

by Thomas A. Edison Found in: War Quotes,
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