War and Peace
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tiny.ag/v6pxskz7 · submitted 1999 by Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/crui0h1u · 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/mkv04ioy · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/rkg7iuvl · submitted 1997
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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/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/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/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
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/aij5p9qp · submitted 1997
Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/jaishdmt · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/b5lrmegw · submitted 1997
Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/vykjqus7 · submitted 1997
Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.
Unknown, in War and Peace
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