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War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
What is human warfare but just this;
an effort to make the laws of God and
nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying
as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide,
you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension...
would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter
When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and
for a time they seem invincible,
but in the end, they always fall ... think of it, always.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day
when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
The Creator has not thought proper
to mark those in the forehead
who are of stuff to make good generals.
We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold,
and then let them learn the trade
at the expense of great losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin.
If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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