Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. WELLSA time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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