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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. •Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. •Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. •Chinese Proverb Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Author: Otto Von Bismarck
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If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work. •Henry Lewis Stimson War is like love, it always finds a way.
Author: Henry Lewis Stimson
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Author: Benito Mussolini
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. •Hyman Rickover A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. •Sir Winston Churchill The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Author: Hyman Rickover
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
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It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Author: Douglas MacArthur
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War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
Author: William T. Sherman
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DepLeted uranium is a warcrime
in progress.
Doug Rokke
appointed by Norman Schwarzkopf as
commander of a cleanup crew of several hundred,
30 of whom have died of cancer
http://indymedia.org.
Author: Doug Rokke
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Author: French Proverb
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Author: Edmund Burke
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Author: Lester Bowles Pearson
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.
Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
Author: David G. Farragut
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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
Author: Richard M. Nixon
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Author: Albert Pike
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Author: Thucydides
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Author: Jose Narosky
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
Author: Colonel Samuel Prescott
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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
Author: Charles Sumner
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Author: Abraham Flexner
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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
Author: Will Rogers
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
Author: Gamel Abdel Nasser
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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
Author: John A. Fisher
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
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There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Author: Andrew B. Law
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When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.
Author: Arthur Ponsonby
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
Author: T. S. Eliot
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Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
Author: John Parker
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All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
Author: Gerald R. Ford
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Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Author: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
Author: James Rado
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It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Author: Fred Woodworth
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The next World War will be fought with stones.
Author: Albert Einstein
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There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.
Author: Peter Muhlenberg
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War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
Author: Walter Millis
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Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.
Author: Charles H. Maskins
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Author: Thomas A. Edison
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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
Author: George Mcgovern
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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War is the science of destruction.
Author: John Abbott
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It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.
Author: Robert E. Lee
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Author: Norman Cousins
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If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
Author: Louis Lecoin
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