"The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."
― Washington Irving
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War
More From Washington Irving
- "A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all."
- "Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love."
- "There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."
More In War
- "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived."― Margaret Mitchell
- "There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."― Sun Tzu
- "When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn’t exist anymore."― Jarvis Cocker