Quote by Thomas Carlyle
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their o

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. – Thomas Carlyle

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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war. – Arthur Henderson

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Weve finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they dont want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States. – Ann Coulter

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We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. – William Westmoreland

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Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. – James Frederick Green

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