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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me"
George Orwell, Author
"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"For a war to be just, three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood"
George S. Patton, Soldier
"Battle is an orgy of disorder"
George S. Patton, Soldier
"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war"
George S. Patton, Soldier
"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle"
George S. Patton, Soldier
"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own"
H.G. Wells, Author
"The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind"
H.G. Wells, Author
"Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does"
Donald Trump, Businessman
"The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side"
Donald Trump, Businessman
"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"War, on the other hand, is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts"
Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer
"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice"
Harry S. Truman, President
"The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness"
Harry S. Truman, President
"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true"
Kurt Vonnegut, Author
"Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
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