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War will exist until that distant day
when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
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War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller
When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Morality is contraband in war.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One of the greatest casualties
of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...
shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anyone who thinks, must think of
the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
What is human warfare but just this;
an effort to make the laws of God and
nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau
The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
I can not believe that war
is the best solution.
No one won the last war,
and no one will win the next war.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails,
and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,
only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Communism has never come to power in a country
that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
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