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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (144 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

[aphorist] Ronald Reagan, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (145 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

[aphorist] Cardinal Richelieu, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (228 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

[aphorist] Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (149 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

[aphorist] Bertrand Russell, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (102 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

[aphorist] N. F. Simpson, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (454 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

[aphorist] Sun Tzu, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (141 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

[aphorist] Bill Vaughan, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (126 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (124 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (126 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Draft beer, not people.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (120 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (121 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (119 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (150 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (126 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

War is menstruation envy.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (132 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (142 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] War and Peace

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