Famous quotes containing the words offensive and/or warfare:
“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings ones heart; but death is a splendid thinga warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
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