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(They
whine and whistle) among

the flashes of blooms of war; More
... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or... More
... children do not take war seriously as war. War is soldiers and soldiers have not to be war... More
... if we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong... More
... in any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides... More
... near a war it is always not very near. More
... nobody nobody wants to learn either by their own or anybody else’s experience, nobody does,... More
... patriotism cannot go back to an innocent time before the murderous excesses of... More
... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than... More
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world... More
... this I conceive to be no time to prate of moral influences. Our men’s nerves require their... More
... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror. More
... we often ask ourselves here despairingly: “What, oh, what is the use of the war? Why... More
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are... More
1st Witch. When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
2nd Witch.... More
A bunch of horsemen curtly asked his name,
Their leader in a different dialect stated
A... More
A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War—Mars. As... More
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily... More
A long war like this makes you realise the society you really prefer, the home, goats chickens... More
A mead
Bordered about with warbling water brooks.
A maid
Laughing the love-laugh with... More
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other... More
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero... More
A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing... More
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its... More
A short life and a merry one, my buck!
We used to say we’d hate to live... More
A soldier firm and sound of heart. More
A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every... More
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of
peace. More
A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. More
A war between Europeans is a civil war. More
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of... More
A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loathed than an effeminate man
In time of... More
A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes. More
A “just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more... More
According to true military art, one should never push one’s enemy to the point of despair,... More
Accurst be he that first invented war. More
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. More
After World War I, the objective factors for socialist revolution were less favorable than they... More
Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its... More
All considerations
for these human remains!
They must have an escort!
They are... More
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that... More
All oppression creates a state of war. More
All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened... More
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds. More
All the argument is a whore and a cuckold, a good quarrel to draw emulous factions and bleed to... More
All the familiar horrors we
Associate with others
Are coming fast along our way:
The... More
All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of... More
All the strong agonized men
Wear the hard clothes of war,
Try to remember what they are... More
All things are ready if our minds be so. More
All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a... More
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. More
All’s pathos now. The body that was gross,
Rank, ravenous, disgusting in the act or in... More
Ambassador Puser the ambassador
Reminds himself in French, felicitous tongue,
What these... More
Ambition (The soldier’s virtue). More
America is addicted to wars of distraction. More
An Austrian army, awfully array’d,
Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
Cossack... More
And all now is war
where so lately there was peace,
and the sweet brotherhood, the... More
And at least you know

That maps are of time, not place, so far as the army
Happens... More
And even we must know, that nobody has understood,
That some great love is over all we... More
And it’s been proved that soldiers don’t go mad
Unless they lose control of ugly... More
And some cease feeling
Even themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The... More
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom... More
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and... More
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I’d toddle safely home and die—in bed. More
Ants are the only creatures on earth, other than man, who make war. They campaign, they are... More
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC. More
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think... More
Are wars ... anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened,... More
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses. More
Ares, gold-changer of bodies. More
Armies, for the most part, are made up of men drawn from simple and peaceful lives. In time of... More
As groceries in a pantry gleam and smile
Because they are important weights
Bought with... More
As I am a soldier,
A name that in my thoughts becomes me best. More
As I walked on the glacis I heard the sound of a bagpipe from the soldiers’ dwellings in the... More
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon... More
At a few drops of women’s rheum, which are
As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and... More
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came... More
At last, with sweat of horror in his hair,
He climbed through darkness to the twilight... More
At the ramparts on the cliff near the old Parliament House I counted twenty-four... More
At twelve I was determined to shoot only
For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all;
I know... More
Barely a twelvemonth after
The seven days war that put the world to sleep,
Late in the... More
Be he as he will, yet once ere night
I will embrace him with a soldier’s arm
That he... More
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain... More
Bees
Shaking the heavy dews from bloom and frond.
Boys
Bursting the surface of the... More
Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed... More
Bernstein: “Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don’t... More
Better to be a dog in times of peace than a human being in times of trouble. More
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally... More
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of... More
Bonnie George Campbell rode out on a day.
He saddled, he bridled, and gallant rode... More
Britain is mighty wobbly. It started late, because it dawdled, appeased, waited for something to... More
But he did for them both by his plan of attack. More
But no, he only said,
“Well, there’s the storm. That says I must go on.
That wants me... More
But the past is just the same,—and War’s a bloody game. . . .
Have you forgotten yet? . .... More
But we are soldiers,
And may that soldier a mere recreant prove,
That means not, hath... More
But, where the road runs near the stream,
Oft through the trees they catch a glance
Of... More
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever moans in man
Before the last... More
Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side, come hot from hell,
Shall... More
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives... More
Can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram
Within this wooden O the... More

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