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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
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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
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
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
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
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
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
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
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
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
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
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
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
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
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
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
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
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- 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 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
When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
Communism has never come to power in a country
that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
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 have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails,
and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill
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
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside,
is that they cannot win and their participants know it.
Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary
because it invites defeat.
It involves an emotional catharsis,
but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
We must concentrate not merely on
the negative expulsion of war
but the positive affirmation of peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
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