War and Peace
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tiny.ag/xm0eggq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
tiny.ag/lgkszg2d · ★★☆☆ Fair (431 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
tiny.ag/b5zelloy · ★★☆☆ Fair (531 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
tiny.ag/e87wmjqg · ★★☆☆ Fair (558 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
tiny.ag/onprshw2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (346 ratings) · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
tiny.ag/zqpdl0n8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (233 ratings) · submitted 1997
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
tiny.ag/ckmjpqso · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
tiny.ag/dnj7czjw · ★★☆☆ Fair (1070 ratings) · submitted 1998
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
tiny.ag/7alftveq · ★★☆☆ Fair (550 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
tiny.ag/owyunzte · ★★☆☆ Fair (354 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/pfpxawj8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · ★★☆☆ Fair (494 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
tiny.ag/ymliwjpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (483 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is not nice.
tiny.ag/2cctxyhg · ★★☆☆ Fair (610 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (427 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
tiny.ag/fiog0z7u · ★★☆☆ Fair (1221 ratings) · submitted 1997
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/tldrjftc · ★★☆☆ Fair (1115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace
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