War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, read more
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old read more
O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
She is a wall of brass;
You shall not pass! You shall not pass!
Spring up like read more
She is a wall of brass;
You shall not pass! You shall not pass!
Spring up like Summer grass,
Surge at her, mass on mass,
Still shall you break like glass,
Splinter and break like shivered glass,
But pass?
You shall not pass!
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, read more
Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
