War and Peace
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tiny.ag/4vs8cciz · submitted 1997
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/snhswbdj · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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/hdyoy0ri · 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 · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
tiny.ag/konajjqe · submitted (updated 8 May)
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/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.
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