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"If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn"
Lawrence Korb, Writer
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"Elevate those guns a little lower"
Andrew Jackson, President
"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die"
Herbert Hoover, President
"My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam"
Madeleine Albright, Statesman
"From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible"
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician
"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came"
Jefferson Davis, President
"A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten"
Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier
"Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry"
Mikhail Kutuzov, Soldier
"All war represents a failure of diplomacy"
Tony Benn, Politician
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind"
John F. Kennedy, President
"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair"
John F. Kennedy, President
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it"
George Orwell, Author
"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence"
Otto von Bismarck, Leader
"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other, for the profit of people who know each other, but don't massacre each other"
Paul Valery, Poet
"When I jerked it out, the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out"
George Crook, Soldier
"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice"
Moshe Dayan, Soldier
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy"
Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people"
Howard Zinn, Historian
"After each war there is a little less democracy to save"
Brooks Atkinson, Critic
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"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, Physicist
"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"People do not make wars; governments do"
Ronald Reagan, President
"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"Before all else, be armed"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it"
Martin Luther, Professor
"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Democracy don't rule the world, you'd better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid"
Bob Dylan, Musician
"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots"
Henry Miller, Writer
"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it"
Robert E. Lee, General
"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack"
Joseph Rotblat, Physicist
"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"
John Milton, Poet
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