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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Unknown

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
George Patton

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu

Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown

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

Another victory like that and we are done for.
Pyrrhus

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
Ambrose Bierce

Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb

Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown

Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce

Draft beer, not people.
Unknown

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

Every soldier is an enemy.
Erno Paasilinna

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
Harlan Ellison

I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
The Duke of Wellington

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

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

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.
Ronald Reagan

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
John Paul Jones

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.
Hans A. Bethe

In war, there is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid

It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.
Unknown

It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Unknown

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy

Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.
Unknown

Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Unknown

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
Albert Einstein

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
Benito Mussolini

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
N. F. Simpson

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George Patton

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

The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.
Andrew Warnick

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
Henry Kissinger

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill

Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
Charles Edward Montague

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.
John Stuart Mill

War is menstruation envy.
Unknown

War is not nice.
Barbara Bush

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown

When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.
Unknown

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill

When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.
Unknown

Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have?
Unknown

Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
Al Capone

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
Henrik Ibsen

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