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“Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.”

Thinking Men War Individual Blood Advantage Tired Rewards Soldier Treasure Peril

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.”

Self Risk Blood Soldier Treasure Resolution Executing

Author:Shashi Tharoor

“If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.”

Ifs Mean Spirit Politics Party Liberty Support Blood Cost Independence Treasure Locals Demon Far Away Reproach

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“I cruise the canyon to get some breeze With Hidden Treasures up my sleeve I like the light and hate the heat But I'll lick the blood right off your street”

Light Hate Blood Streets Treasure Heat Breeze Sleeves Cruise Canyons Hidden Treasure

Author:Katy Rose

“Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.”

Found Justice Blood Mankind Treasure Maintenance Prodigals

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary

“Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.”

May Running Nations Liberty Blood Ought Blessing Treasure Probability Hazards Recovering Dissipation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.”

Knows Said War Choices Blood Possibility Months Politician Cost Solutions Consequence Program Folks Iraq Nuclear Treasure Rejects Iran Diplomatic Pundits

Author:Barack Obama

“If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.”

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“Be tough, hold a tough line, but don`t be running off into another war, especially since even if you support our troops and you want to have a robust foreign policy, you recognize that we have - we have been overdeploying our men and women, and we have been spilling our blood and treasure, and we need to be more careful.”

Ifs Men Want Needs Has Beens War Running Lines Support Blood Policy Men And Women Tough Careful Treasure Foreign Policy Troops Robust Our Troops Spilling Support Our Troops

Author:Chris Matthews

“We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.”

Knows Men Years War Young Blood Men And Women Following Treasure Young Man Afghanistan Stakes

Author:Rahm Emanuel

“There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in its content, because Russia is our most dangerous geopolitical opponent because of the desires that they have in the Middle East and because of their desire to break up Europe. And in the United States, we spent a lot of blood and a lot of treasure trying to keep Europe intact and democratic, and trying to keep the Middle East from being only influenced by people who are massive fans of [Syrian President] Assad and massive fans of the Iranians.”

“You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 1: Life of John Adams

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

“And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle”

Ifs Knows Men World Needs America Winning Nations Blood Greatness Tears Willing Ready Battle Treasure Strife Readiness

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century