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War and Peace
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# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
# · Not So Good (21 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
War is not nice.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
# · Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
# · Not So Good (13 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
# · Bad (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
# · Not So Good (30 ratings) · submitted 1997
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
# · Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Salvor Hardin), in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance
Foundation (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
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