War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
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41–60 (74)
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · 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/2cctxyhg · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · 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/ghcdyyrg · submitted 1997
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ifl4hquq · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/826svnit · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
tiny.ag/ucs9vnd3 · 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/8bpf0foj · 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/db2sazsg · submitted 1997
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/jaishdmt · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
tiny.ag/5i2ylath · submitted 1997
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
tiny.ag/l9ib3pad · submitted 1997
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
tiny.ag/4kgkvwyo · submitted 1997
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
tiny.ag/r3davdhl · submitted 1997
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
tiny.ag/aolzpl1x · submitted 1997
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
tiny.ag/kxyqnliw · submitted 1997
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
tiny.ag/2flecxec · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
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