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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
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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
Patience is an ever present alternative
to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience.
Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find
lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger.
It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are
and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to.
It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully,
moving fast because you have chosen to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
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
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
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)
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin.
If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
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
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter
Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller
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
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
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
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
Anyone who thinks, must think of
the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Communism has never come to power in a country
that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
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 have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
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
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
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.
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
We must concentrate not merely on
the negative expulsion of war
but the positive affirmation of peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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