War and Peace

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan, in Law and Politics and War and Peace

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

Steve Martin, in War and Peace

In war, there is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur, in War and Peace

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx, in War and Peace

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx, in War and Peace

Every soldier is an enemy.

Erno Paasilinna, in War and Peace

Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick, in War and Peace

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Ovid, in War and Peace

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Henry Kissinger, in War and Peace

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy, in War and Peace

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace