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tiny.ag/mkv04ioy · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

tiny.ag/d6zsoa2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997

I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

tiny.ag/pfpxawj8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/owyunzte · ★★☆☆ Fair (354 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

tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

tiny.ag/ifl4hquq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · 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

tiny.ag/db2sazsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997

Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.

tiny.ag/826svnit · ★★☆☆ Fair (818 ratings) · submitted 1998

Every soldier is an enemy.

tiny.ag/hrd6aj12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (424 ratings) · submitted 1997

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

tiny.ag/crjwer6v · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

tiny.ag/9pd1qmsc · ★★☆☆ Fair (914 ratings) · submitted 1999

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

tiny.ag/jaishdmt · ★★☆☆ Fair (178 ratings) · submitted 1997

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

War and Peace