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  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

    John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin
  • I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

    Funny   War   Humor  
    "Mother Tongue". Book by Bill Bryson, July 1990.
  • The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

    Peace   War   Army  
    "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.
  • You may delay, but time will not.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

    Letter to Lord Wavell, 26 Nov. 1940, in Second World War (1949) vol. 2, ch. 27
  • Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

    Military   Add   Ugly  
  • I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

  • Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  • Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

    Peace   War   May  
  • The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?

    Spiritual   War   Evil  
    John Hersey (2015). “Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]”, p.31, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

    Country   Military   War  
    "Encyclopedia of Russian History" by James R. Millar, Soviet Union, (p. 1504), 2004.
  • The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "Adagia". Book by Desiderius Erasmus, 1500.
  • Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very lucky people--but we need to use the time we have been granted wisely, because total war is only sleeping. All the major states are still organized for war, and all that is needed for the world to slide back into a nuclear confrontation is a twist of the kaleidoscope that shifts international relations into a new pattern of rival alliances.

    Country   War   Sleep  
  • As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

    Edward Gibbon (1781). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.8
  • Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

    Hate   War   God Of War  
    "Heracleidae". Play by Euripides, 430 BCE.
  • The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

    War   Violence   Foxes  
    Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Where laws end, tyranny begins.

    Law   Ends   Tyranny  
    William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387
  • To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

  • Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

    Passion   Men   Justice  
    The Federalist no. 15 (1788)
  • The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

    "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book XV, 50,
  • The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

    Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”
  • Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  • God is on the side of the big battalions.

    Sides   Bigs   Total War  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4161, e-artnow
  • War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

    War   School   Total War  
  • God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

    God   Military   War  
    "Great Thinkers Great Thoughts: One Thought Can Change Your World". Book published by Tejgyan Global Foundation, 2015.
  • If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

    Suicide   War   Long  
    Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.269, Transaction Publishers
  • In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

  • In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism of its workers-there has been welded an almost impregnable defense against the evil designs of any who would threaten the security of the American continent. It is indeed the most forceful and convincing argument yet evolved to restrain the irresponsibility of those who would recklessly bring down upon the good and peace-loving peoples of all the nations of the earth the disaster of total war.

  • Total war is the most humane in the long run.

    Running   War   Long  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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