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“I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.”

Knows World Doe War Care Enemy History Hell Beats Organization Sight Don't Care Administration Damn Civil War Grants Scare Smarter American Civil War

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.”

War Reason Government Fighting Enemy Sea Building Resources Army Crisis Trade Profit Fund Reverse Incapable Rivals Monarchs Territorial Maritime

Author:Peter Padfield

“Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in against him. He might, however, neutralize Elizabth by supporting her internal Catholic enemies, even provoking civil war.”

War Might Wanted Enemy Struggle England Catholic France Civil War Internals Occupation Provoking Philip

Book:Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World

Source: Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World

“It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.”

Knows War Enemy Know How Football Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Jose Mourinho

“Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.”

Persons War Matter Form Certain Enemy Study Atheism Circumstances Members Normal Logic No Matter What Historical Positive Atheism Paranoia Archetype Pathology

Author:Sam Keen

“The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.”

“As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists."”

Want War Christian America Names President Enemy Terrorist Radical Barack Islamic Criticize Apologizing Medieval Junk President Barack Obama Junk Food

Author:Bobby Jindal

“It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.”

Ifs Men World War Enemy Poverty Misery Abolish

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]”

War Enemy Bridges Silver Gates

Author:Francois Rabelais

“There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.”

Ifs War Country Government Enemy Trouble Seasons Right Time Medal Consensus

Author:Joan Baez

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”