War and Peace
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tiny.ag/abk7huzh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1236 ratings) · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/hfj4loeb · ★★☆☆ Fair (825 ratings) · submitted 1998
The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.
tiny.ag/is5ffzu6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
tiny.ag/4vs8cciz · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
tiny.ag/rb8m34k9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (968 ratings) · submitted 1999
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/rh5oemag · ★★☆☆ Fair (590 ratings) · submitted 1997
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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/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/snhswbdj · ★★☆☆ Fair (260 ratings) · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
tiny.ag/qgj3ivvu · ★★☆☆ Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1997
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
tiny.ag/qk0rnn17 · ★★☆☆ Fair (396 ratings) · submitted 1997
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
tiny.ag/v6pxskz7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/pyjfe6sb · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.
tiny.ag/crui0h1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/hdyoy0ri · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Chris Daniels
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/mkv04ioy · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (424 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/crjwer6v · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
tiny.ag/826svnit · ★★☆☆ Fair (818 ratings) · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
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