War and Peace
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tiny.ag/zsldl2jb · submitted 1997
When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/idqkjfr5 · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel
When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/sxpzikiy · submitted 1997
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden, "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier", in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · 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/dgf0pdxo · submitted 1997
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
tiny.ag/aij5p9qp · submitted 1997
Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/konajjqe · submitted (updated 3:20)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/6gqwgydb · submitted 1997
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/pyjfe6sb · 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.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/crjwer6v · submitted 1997
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · submitted 1997
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/db2sazsg · submitted 1997
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
tiny.ag/ifl4hquq · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/826svnit · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/jaishdmt · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
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