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War and Peace
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. [Select] The graveyards are full of indispensable men. [Select] It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies. [Select] Edith Hamilton: The Greek Way [Shop] {Also in: Life and Death} Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. [Select] Isaac Asimov: Foundation (Salvor Hardin) [Shop] {Also in: Wisdom and Ignorance} The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. [Select] Joseph Heller: Catch-22 [Shop] There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. [Select] Victor Hugo {Also in: Success and Failure} Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. [Select] Aldous Huxley {Also in: Science and Religion} You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty. [Select] And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. [Select] John F. Kennedy (inaugural speech, 1961) {Also in: Law and Politics} Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. [Select] The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. [Select] In war, there is no substitute for victory. [Select] I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. [Select] Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. [Select] Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. [Select] War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. [Select] War hath no fury like a non-combatant. [Select] Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. [Select] I am become death, shatterer of worlds. [Select] Robert J. Oppenheimer (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion) Isn't the best defense always a good attack? [Select]
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