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Let who will boast their courage in the field,
I find but little safety from my shield,
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Let who will boast their courage in the field,
I find but little safety from my shield,
Nature's, not honour's law we must obey:
This made me cast my useless shield away.
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these read more
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All read more
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the read more
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.rn
It is not only the living who are killed in war.rn
War is the science of destruction.
War is the science of destruction.
