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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson

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In boundless love as a Christian and as a man
I read through the passage which tells us
how the Lord at last rose in His might
and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple
the brood of vipers and of adders.
- Adolf Hitler

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

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


 

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.

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

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu

You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- 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

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

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

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not enough to say we must not wage war.
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill

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

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- 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

When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy

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

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

It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't be against anything -
e.g. don't be against war, be FOR peace
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying
as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide,
you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension...
would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill

When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter

When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- 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

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 can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu

I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead

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 not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

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 most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson

If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy

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 have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nuts.
- General Anthony Clement McAuliffe
responding to a German demand to surrender his
101st Airborne Division in Belgium during World War II.

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

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails,
and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill

Anyone who thinks, must think of
the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill

When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers and
for a time they seem invincible,
but in the end, they always fall ... think of it, always.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee


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