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Source: Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891

“The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.”

World Ends Self Felt Destruction Army Lifetime Serving End Of The World Pacific Self Destruction Hiroshima American Army

Author:Gore Vidal

“The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.”

World Humans Heart Made Ends Spirit Wealth Progress Thousand Army Human Heart Human Spirit Decency

Author:William J. Clinton

“That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.”

Wells Ends Done Today Results Common Battle Benefits Universal Army Endure Proof Welcome Survivor Confession Sections Monument Virginia Descendants Well Done Uniting Gallant Acclaim

Author:William Howard Taft

“Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.”

Men Ends Whole Government Humanity Universe Hours White Cities Conditions Conversation Army Desert Sand Organize Moss Feasting

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.”

Thinking Men War Ends Facts Existence Leader Enemy He Man Essentials Army Slavery Unions Careful Civil War Rebellion Be Careful Trusted Hostile Traitor

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.”

Ifs Kind War Ends Nations Conflict Army Vietnam Vietnam War Liable Conscription

Author:Colin Powell

“I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again.”

People Ends School Army England Educated Banking Private School

Author:Jeremy Irons

“Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.”

“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.”

Mean War Ends Country Would Be Lasts Fighting Enemy Economy Destruction Army Property Soldier Strikes Damage Camps Trenches Continuance

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."”

Thinking World Wells Mean Said War Ends Happens Lasts Voice Army Died Iraq War Of The Worlds Mates World War I They Said Veteran Patches Iraq War Great War Very Sad

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“My father thought that if I was to go into the army, at the least I would have a reliable paycheck at the end of each month with which to feed my family. Music is less assured. One could say more dangerous!”

Ifs Ends Father Dangerous Months Music Is My Family Army Assured Paychecks Each Month

Author:Vieux Farka Toure

“....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.”

People Ends Differences Standing Army Court Observation Ministers Pursued Second Amendment

Book:Political Disquisitions: Or, An Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses

Source: Political Disquisitions: Or, An Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses

“Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.”

War Ends Mom Dad Battle Army Beach Concentration Camps Liberated Concentration Camp Normandy Hedgerows

Author:Mark Hoppus

“If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.”

Ifs Long Doe Two Ends Lost Simple Feet Fronts Example Army Died Circles Wander Ants Two Days Wandering Around

Author:James Surowiecki

“Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.”

Men Believe Ends Millions Building Brother Labor Army Killing Torture Concentration Camps Compulsion Animated Concentration Camp Mao Seizures

Author:Dorothy Day

“Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.”

Ends Government Poverty Economic Army Paid Crisis Winter East Disaster Bitter Saving Desperate Fund Gates Pills Savings Unemployed Anecdotes Cushions Economic Crisis Docks Syrup Handouts

Author:Melanie McGrath

“The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.”

Thinking Ends Political Actors Violence Republican Organization Army British Terrorist Genuine Ireland Grievance

Author:Richard A. Falk

“When Saddam Hussein was eliminated, the Iraqi statehood and thousands of people from the former Baath party were also eliminated. Thousands of Iraqi servicemen, who were part of the state's Sunni elite, found themselves thrown out into the street. No one gave a thought about them, and today they end up in the ISIS army.”

People Ends States Today Found Party Streets Army Former Thrown Elites Saddam Hussein Isis Servicemen

Author:Vladimir Putin

“As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.”

“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.”

People Ifs Men Giving Art Ends Enough Care Pain Remember Courses Memories Loss Powerful Healing Taken Return Mountain Devil Army Notion Dust Hardship Ashes Enough Time God Is There Dust To Dust

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.”

Ifs Want Persons Ends Process My Family Army Revenge Insightful

Book:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.”

Men Persons Doe Ends Facts Action Reading Names Religious My Own Moral Opinion Principles Fashion Army Call Me Tyrants Arrogant Be A Man

Book:Mistborn Trilogy

Source: Mistborn Trilogy

“There was no discussion between them; it was as if the bugs had worked out this whole scenario long ago. Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone.”

Ifs Long Ends Whole Faces Army Speed Bridges Discussion Long Ago Rats Bugs Scenarios Tick

Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:

Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”

Long Stills Ends Whole Earth Faces Sleep Saws Fronts Expression Quiet Army Lays Western Calm Sentences Glad Fallen Reports Confined October Single Sentence

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.”

War Ends Resources Army Rewards Punishment Distress Art Of War

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

Stills Ends Victory Perfection Army Vices Infirmity

Author:Alexander the Great

“The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!”

Men Ends Military Army Blindness Backbone Military Force Military Man

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.”

Two War Ends Nations Military Horror Army Plant Congress Civilized Pacifist Dynamite Recoil Civilized Nations

Author:Alfred Nobel

“At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.”

Ifs Thinking War Ends Fighting Military Army Endure Ill Iraq Population Civil War The End Of The Day Civilians Bombing Don't Trust Incompetent Kurds Shia

Author:Barry McCaffrey

“Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.”

People Ends Country States Differences Masters Revolution Arms Please Gun Standing Army Court Command Observation Ministers Gun Control Pursued Second Amendment

Author:Aristotle

“Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.”

“The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.”

Two Ends Lasts Sin Capitalism Army Investment Painful Checks Irony Rivals Magnifying

Book:All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

Source: All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

“I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.”

Ifs World Way Two Ends Facts Given Justice Rights Objects Army Newspapers Impression My Way Alternatives Boxing Jail Constitutional Rights

Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the Army at the end, in 1945.”

Years Ends Five Army Medical Ran Five Years Hospitals Captains Administrators Medics

Author:Eli Wallach

“Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?”

Years Littles War Ends Asks Gone Wise Policy Baby Kings Mountain Taxes Hundred Standing Army Pursue Genocide Flood Cradle Famine Systematic Orcs Sauron

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Only the dead will know the end of the war.”

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Author:Plato

“Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.”

People Mean Littles Ends Use Would Be Winning Lost Darkness Greater Building Ego Treats Army Greed Riches Occasions Generosity Empires Boots Collecting New Friends

Author:Cyrus the Great

“It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.”

Source: CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions

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