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"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions"
Robert Wilson Lynd, Writer
"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be"
Denis Kearney, Politician
"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people"
James Rado, Actor
"The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory"
Douglas Haig, Soldier
"War is failure of diplomacy"
John Dingell, Politician
"Peace is obtained by war"
Cornelius Nepos
"At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia"
Andrei Platonov, Writer
"There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed"
John Negroponte, Diplomat
"In the 1930s, one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war"
James Meade, Economist
"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battlefield are not bleeding"
Georges Duhamel, Novelist
"Once we're ignored or dismissed long enough, conservatives seem to just shrug our collective shoulders and accept defeat. It's this type of passivity that has allowed progressives to dominate film and television, universities and large swaths of the mainstream news media"
Charlie Kirk, Politician
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just"
Cicero, Philosopher
"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology"
Ronald Reagan, President
"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent"
Ronald Reagan, President
"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas"
Ronald Reagan, President
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"One man with a gun can control 100 without one"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place"
John F. Kennedy, President
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"Take the diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week"
Will Rogers, Actor
"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one"
Will Rogers, Actor
"An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
"The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
"You'll live. Only the best get killed"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country"
George S. Patton, Soldier
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