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The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried--that is history. He loved me and gave Himself for me--that is doctrine. Such was the Christianity of the primitive Church.
- J. Gresham Machen
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
- Rowan Williams
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
- Theodore Roosevelt
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
- Elie Wiesel
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
- Erica Jong
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.
- Stephen Jay Gould
My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
- Margaret Atwood
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
- Margaret Mead
The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
- Will Rogers
My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
- Edmund Burke