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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.
Edit Comment# · Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (149 ratings) · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Edit Comment# · Fair (454 ratings) · submitted 1997
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu, in
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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.
Edit Comment# · Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Draft beer, not people.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (150 ratings) · submitted 1997
Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is menstruation envy.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.
Unknown, in
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Edit Comment# · Fair (142 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have?
Unknown, in
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