War and Peace

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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/qgj3ivvu · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/piklxjab · submitted 1997

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

tiny.ag/ry32bjva · submitted 1997

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

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/ymliwjpf · submitted 1997

War is not nice.

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/dgf0pdxo · submitted 1997

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

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/phdwhmxt · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/sxpzikiy · submitted 1997

To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

W. H. Auden, "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier", in War and Peace

tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · submitted 1997

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

tiny.ag/ldizacqu · submitted 1997

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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