War and Peace

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tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · submitted 1997

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

tiny.ag/qgj3ivvu · submitted 1997

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.

tiny.ag/1i8zitnu · submitted 1998

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.

tiny.ag/2flecxec · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/la65dtiv · submitted 1998

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

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

tiny.ag/kxyqnliw · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · submitted 1997

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

tiny.ag/owyunzte · submitted 1997

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/pfpxawj8 · submitted 1997

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · submitted 1997

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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/ymliwjpf · submitted 1997

War is not nice.

tiny.ag/snhswbdj · submitted 1997

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · submitted 1997

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.

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