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| Abigail Van Buren | Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes! |
| Abraham Lincoln | The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I underst [read rest of quote] |
| Abraham Lincoln | Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? |
| Albert Camus | He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. |
| Albert Einstein | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stic [read rest of quote] |
| Aldous Huxley | A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly [read rest of quote] |
| Alexander Haig | The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood [read rest of quote] |
| Arthur C. Clarke, 2010 | We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landl [read rest of quote] |
| Arthur Koestler | The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
| Ayn Rand | Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant [read rest of quote] |
| Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946 | I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanctio [read rest of quote] |
| Barbara Bush | War is not nice. |
| Carl Sagan, Contact | A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity [read rest of quote] |
| Caskie Stinnett | A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forwar [read rest of quote] |
| Charles Ives | Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. |
| Charles Lindberg | Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob. |
| Chief Joseph | Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will figh [read rest of quote] |
| Col. Jack Ripper | (Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 y [read rest of quote] |
| Dame Rebecca West | Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like [read rest of quote] |
| Dorothy Sayers |
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futil [read rest of quote] |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a t [read rest of quote] |
| Ferdinand Foch | A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. |
| General George Catlett Marshall | Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. |
| General George Patton | The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. |
| General Karl Von Clausewitz | War is the continuation of politics by other means. |
| George Eliot | The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. |
| George Orwell, Polemic | The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. |
| Georges Clemenceau | War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. |
| Hannah Arendt | War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. |
| Henry Tuckerman | Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an [read rest of quote] |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their c [read rest of quote] |
| Horace Smith | Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. |
| Hunter S. Thompson | In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. |
| James Thurber | Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. |
| Jeannette Rankin | You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. |
| Joaquin Setanti | Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. |
| John Bracken | He grounds the warship he walks on. |
| John Maynard Keynes | The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. |
| John Maynard Keynes | The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward. |
| Jules de Gaultier | Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. |
| Ken Thompson | Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside. |
| Kit Carson | The cowards never start and the weak die along the way. |
| Leo Tolstoy | The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. |
| Leonard Brandwein | Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. |
| Lucan | If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato. |
| Mae West | Virtue has its own reward, but no box office. |
| Molly Wiest | War is the biggest ego trip of all time. |
| Napolean | An army marches on its stomach. |
| Napoleon | He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. |
| Oscar Wilde | As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as [read rest of quote] |
| Oscar Wilde | Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. |
| Oscar Wilde | Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. |
| Pat Robertson | It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally sa [read rest of quote] |
| Patricia Moyes | I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomf [read rest of quote] |
| Quintilian | When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. |
| R. A. Salvatore | You can win a million battles but you can only lose one. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. |
| Rita Rudner | I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. |
| Roland | Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. |
| Solomon Short | The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky |
| Sun Tzu, The Art of War | To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship [read rest of quote] |
| U Thant | Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defense [read rest of quote] |
| Uffe Ellemann | I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe [read rest of quote] |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike [read rest of quote] |
| Ulysses S. Grant | It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficien [read rest of quote] |
| Vernon Sanders Law | Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. |
| Voltaire | Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. |
| Wall Street Journal | Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the se [read rest of quote] |
| Winston Churchill | Never give in -- never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give i [read rest of quote] |
| Zell Miller | It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag [read rest of quote] |