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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
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
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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
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
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
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 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
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
Communism has never come to power in a country
that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
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 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
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
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
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
We must concentrate not merely on
the negative expulsion of war
but the positive affirmation of peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill
War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails,
and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
Anyone who thinks, must think of
the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
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
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- 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
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
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
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- 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
Morality is contraband in war.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
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
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 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
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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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.
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