War and Peace
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tiny.ag/aij5p9qp · ★★☆☆ Fair (245 ratings) · submitted 1997
Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus, 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/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/mkv04ioy · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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/ifl4hquq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in 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/piklxjab · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
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/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/9pd1qmsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (914 ratings) · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/ucs9vnd3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (829 ratings) · submitted 1997
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. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
tiny.ag/jaishdmt · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (233 ratings) · submitted 1997
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
tiny.ag/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1070 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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