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tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · ★★☆☆ Fair (431 ratings) · submitted 1997

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin, in Law and Politics and War and Peace

tiny.ag/qgj3ivvu · ★★☆☆ Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1997

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.

Henrik Ibsen, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley, in Science and Religion and War and Peace

tiny.ag/piklxjab · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo, in Success and Failure and War and Peace

tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (558 ratings) · submitted 1997

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett, in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (233 ratings) · submitted 1997

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

Harlan Ellison, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/onprshw2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (346 ratings) · submitted 1997

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1070 ratings) · submitted 1998

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

Albert Einstein, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · submitted 1997

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · ★★☆☆ Fair (610 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.

Hans A. Bethe, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997

I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

The Duke of Wellington, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/ypqqlw9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (672 ratings) · submitted 1998

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

Unknown, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/yy2e1ad8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997

Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have?

Unknown, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/zsldl2jb · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997

When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.