War and Peace
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tiny.ag/ghcdyyrg · ★★☆☆ Fair (973 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · ★★☆☆ Fair (1221 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (427 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (424 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/db2sazsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · 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/ifl4hquq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/826svnit · ★★☆☆ Fair (818 ratings) · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
tiny.ag/crjwer6v · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (914 ratings) · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/jaishdmt · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
tiny.ag/ucs9vnd3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (829 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/ry32bjva · ★★☆☆ Fair (823 ratings) · submitted 1997
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ldizacqu · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (3018 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace
tiny.ag/rkg7iuvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
tiny.ag/sxpzikiy · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · 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/5i2ylath · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1997
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
tiny.ag/4kgkvwyo · ★★☆☆ Fair (170 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
tiny.ag/l9ib3pad · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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