War and Peace
74 aphorisms · one comment
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tiny.ag/hdyoy0ri · 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/crui0h1u · 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/v6pxskz7 · submitted 1999 by Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/snhswbdj · submitted 1997
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/ognqp9t4 · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
tiny.ag/qgj3ivvu · submitted 1997
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
tiny.ag/1i8zitnu · submitted 1998
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.
tiny.ag/2flecxec · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
tiny.ag/la65dtiv · submitted 1998
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/kxyqnliw · submitted 1997
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
tiny.ag/826svnit · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
tiny.ag/ry32bjva · submitted 1997
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/4kgkvwyo · submitted 1997
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
tiny.ag/ifl4hquq · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · submitted 1997
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/db2sazsg · submitted 1997
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · submitted 1999
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
tiny.ag/jaishdmt · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
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