War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
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tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · ★★☆☆ Fair (431 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/owyunzte · ★★☆☆ Fair (354 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/pfpxawj8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · ★★☆☆ Fair (494 ratings) · 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/ymliwjpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (483 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is not nice.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (558 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/onprshw2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (346 ratings) · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (233 ratings) · submitted 1997
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1070 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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