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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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