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Category: war

Posted on December 26, 2025

“The unscrupulous are always ready to profit from war.”—Christopher Fowler (‘Bryant & May: Peculiar London’), English author, 1953-2023

Posted on June 9, 2025

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on May 24, 2025

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.”—(“Julius Caesar”), William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616

Posted on May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

“Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune….Happiness is never grand.”—Aldous Huxley, English philosopher, 1894-1963

Posted on March 24, 2025

“The difference between bad speech and bad deeds is opportunity.”—Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, 1st century AD

Posted on February 17, 2025February 17, 2025

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”—Helen Keller, American author, 1880-1968

Posted on September 18, 2024September 17, 2024

“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.”—(‘King Lear’), William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616

Posted on July 24, 2024

“Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”—Antoine de St. Exupéry, French writer, 1900-1944

Posted on September 21, 2022September 20, 2022

“When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC

Posted on September 19, 2022September 18, 2022

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

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