Favorite Quotations
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Thomas Paine Reader
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in a final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower One sword keeps another in the sheath. ~ George Herbert I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. ~ Thomas Edison A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace. ~ Robert Orben It is well that war is so terrible; else we should grow too fond of it. ~ Robert E. Lee War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ~ Thomas Mann War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. ~ Herman Melville When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more. ~ Tom Petty, Esquire, 8/06 How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake? ~ John Kerry War is like love; it always finds a way. ~ Bertolt Brecht We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace. ~ Harry S Truman 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. ~ Douglas MacArthur A Bayonet’s contrition is nothing to the dead. ~ Emily Dickinson Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~ Ernest Hemingway 1 | 2
"Rapidity is the essence of war." ~ Sun Tzu