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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]
Ancient Chinese Warlord    To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship  [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 [read rest of quote]
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.  
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 F. Kennedy    Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.  
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    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]
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]