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I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a read more
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you read more
If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work. •Henry Lewis Stimson War is like love, it always finds a way.
If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future read more
If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
