War and Peace

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace

A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.

Unknown, in War and Peace

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

Unknown, in War and Peace

Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.

Unknown, in War and Peace

Draft beer, not people.

Unknown, in War and Peace

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

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

Al Capone, in War and Peace

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

Winston Churchill, in War and Peace

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

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

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

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

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

Cicero, in War and Peace

All warfare is based on deception.

Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Sun Tzu, in War and Peace

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan, in Law and Politics and War and Peace

The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.

Andrew Warnick, in War and Peace

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

N. F. Simpson, in War and Peace

Another victory like that and we are done for.

Pyrrhus, in War and Peace

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.

Ronald Reagan, in War and Peace

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu, in War and Peace

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in War and Peace