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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of read more
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
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.
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an
indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be read more
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an
indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be
repeatedly emphasized.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those read more
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic read more
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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.
It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.
It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.
