War and Peace
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Edit Comment# · Fair (184 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
Edit Comment# · Fair (668 ratings) · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
Edit Comment# · Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Edit Comment# · Fair (717 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 2001)
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Edit Comment# · Fair (843 ratings) · submitted 1999 ·
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (816 ratings) · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
Edit Comment# · Fair (737 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Chris Daniels
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (775 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (705 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (795 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (843 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (1028 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in
Law and Politics and
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (1084 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in
Success and Failure and
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (2895 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in
Life and Death and
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (533 ratings) · submitted (updated 1998)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in
War and Peace
Edit Comment# · Fair (524 ratings) · submitted 1998
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in
War and Peace
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