In war there is no substitute for victory.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

London is a roost for every bird.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

We make war that we may live in peace.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.