War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Interpretation
War requires thoughtful leadership beyond just military expertise.
This quote implies that the complexities and gravitas of war should not solely rely on military leaders who may focus too much on tactical aspects, instead, it necessitates the insights and wisdom of a broader leadership that considers the moral, political, and human elements involved in such serious decisions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of political leaders in military decisions.
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.
There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
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