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War and Peace
To save your world you asked this man to die; W. H. Auden: "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier" 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. [Select] 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. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Also in: Law and Politics} Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. [Select] Ambrose Bierce {Also in: Vice and Virtue} Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. [Select] Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] War is not nice. [Select] You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word. [Select] A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. [Select] To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war. [Select] Winston Churchill (on Korean War negotiations) When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. [Select] Winston Churchill (on formal declarations of war) I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war. [Select] I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. [Select] I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. [Select] We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. [Select] For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race. [Select] All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. [Select] The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. [Select] Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. [Select] Edward Everett {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. [Select] Benjamin Franklin {Also in: Law and Politics}
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