War and Peace
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tiny.ag/abk7huzh · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/xrdfngoo · submitted 1997
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/konajjqe · submitted (updated 3:20)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/6gqwgydb · submitted 1997
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/is5ffzu6 · submitted 1997
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
tiny.ag/hfj4loeb · submitted 1998
The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/onprshw2 · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · submitted 1997
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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/7alftveq · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
tiny.ag/jaishdmt · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · submitted 1997
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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.
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