War and Peace
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tiny.ag/is5ffzu6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · 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/rh5oemag · ★★☆☆ Fair (590 ratings) · submitted 1997
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/rb8m34k9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (968 ratings) · submitted 1999
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/crui0h1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/hdyoy0ri · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Chris Daniels
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/mkv04ioy · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
tiny.ag/pyjfe6sb · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (245 ratings) · submitted 1997
Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ifl4hquq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/4kgkvwyo · ★★☆☆ Fair (170 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
tiny.ag/crjwer6v · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
tiny.ag/r3davdhl · ★★☆☆ Fair (427 ratings) · submitted 1997
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
tiny.ag/826svnit · ★★☆☆ Fair (818 ratings) · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (914 ratings) · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/jaishdmt · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
tiny.ag/ucs9vnd3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (829 ratings) · 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/5i2ylath · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1997
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
tiny.ag/l9ib3pad · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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