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War and Peace
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# · 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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy, (inaugural speech, 1961), in Law and Politics and War and Peace
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997 ·
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
Ovid, in War and Peace
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
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