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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

tiny.ag/owyunzte · ★★☆☆ Fair (354 ratings) · submitted 1997

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/pfpxawj8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

tiny.ag/ircejxuc · ★★☆☆ Fair (494 ratings) · submitted 1997

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

tiny.ag/ymliwjpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (483 ratings) · submitted 1997

War is not nice.

War and Peace