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Category: war

Posted on August 25, 2021

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021

“Nothing is so well fortified that money cannot capture it.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”—Hannah Arendt, American political scientist, 1906-1975

Posted on April 8, 2016August 25, 2021

“Union gives strength.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on March 4, 2016March 17, 2023

“My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that I am very much at sea.”—Sir Edward Carson, Irish politician, 1854-1935

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