War and Peace
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tiny.ag/mkv04ioy · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
tiny.ag/4vs8cciz · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · ★★☆☆ Fair (396 ratings) · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/snhswbdj · ★★☆☆ Fair (260 ratings) · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
tiny.ag/v6pxskz7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/crui0h1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/hdyoy0ri · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Chris Daniels
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/pyjfe6sb · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
tiny.ag/aij5p9qp · ★★☆☆ Fair (245 ratings) · submitted 1997
Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/2flecxec · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/crjwer6v · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (424 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/826svnit · ★★☆☆ Fair (818 ratings) · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
tiny.ag/ifl4hquq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/db2sazsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
tiny.ag/la65dtiv · ★★☆☆ Fair (1022 ratings) · submitted 1998
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/kxyqnliw · ★★☆☆ Fair (318 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · ★★☆☆ Fair (610 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
tiny.ag/1i8zitnu · ★★☆☆ Fair (892 ratings) · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
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