War and Peace
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tiny.ag/pyjfe6sb · submitted 1997
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
tiny.ag/aij5p9qp · submitted 1997
Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/crjwer6v · submitted 1997
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/826svnit · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
tiny.ag/ifl4hquq · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in War and Peace
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/sxpzikiy · submitted 1997
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden, "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier", in War and Peace
tiny.ag/4kgkvwyo · submitted 1997
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
tiny.ag/l9ib3pad · submitted 1997
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
tiny.ag/5i2ylath · submitted 1997
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
tiny.ag/xm0eggq6 · submitted 1997
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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