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War & Patriotism They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin To fight and conquer in all your battles is not true excellence. Excellence consists of breaking your enemies' resistance without fighting. Paul Watson One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. We know the enemy and it is us. Pogo The soldier was one of the first inventions of civilization. War has become not just tragic, but preposterous. With modern weapons, there can be no victory for anyone. President Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower I'm afeared that there are few who die well that die in battle. Shakespeare People say, well, I could never kill a man. That's bullshit. They can. Anybody can kill. It takes more to make one man kill than it does the next ... But combat, you know, once they start shooting at you, if you don't shoot back, you're a damned fool. U.S. Vietnam Veteran War is an institution as old, complicated and pervasive as religion or property. Football is a controlled war. Bill Bowers Keep your Confederate money boys, cuz the South's gonna rise again. No man in battle is really sane. William Manchester, WW II veteran Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? Sgt. Dan Daly, USMC Peace through a preemptive nuclear strike! Happiness lasts but a day; but a nuclear war lasts forever. Todd Ferguson Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Groucho Marx He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. Napolean Bonaparte American people, if they know all the facts, will never make a mistake. President Ronald Reagan Patriotism should never be used as an excuse for ignorance. Ken Rickard If it's Russian, it's not wisdom. Eryk Hargrove Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan In a nuclear war, the survivors will envy the dead. Nikita Khruschev Peace through imperialist aggression. Do you want your children to hug Nuclear Arms? To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Edmund Burke Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. Chinese proverb Nuke a gay whale for Jesus. The true patriot is never happy with the state of his nation. Ken Rickard Peace through mutual understanding. Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn. The best heart may go wrong in dark hours. Goethe Peace through genocide! War is hell! I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking and enough books would be left to start again and civilization could be restored. Albert Einstein An army marches on it's stomach. Napoleon Bonaparte Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. Hermann Goering In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. Winston Churchill Our army is composed of the scum of the earth. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar A revolution is not a tea party. Mao Tse-Tung When you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. H.L. Mencken Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. John Gunther In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. Oscar Wilde Peace ... Love ... Bullshit. Victory has a hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. Santayana See, the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets, Beat the drums! Thomas Morell Peace (n) - In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. Ambrose Bierce Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill If they really want to honor the soldiers, why don't they let them sit in the stands and have the people march by. Will Rogers He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day. Anonymous, 17th century: Musarum Deliciae I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. Artemus Ward Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes. William Prescott There will be no nuclear war. There's too much real estate involved. Frank Zappa I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Virgil And I dreamed I saw the bombers and planes Riding shotgun in the sky, Turning into butterflies, Above the nation. Joni Mitchell My country right or wrong - is like saying - My mother drunk or sober. G.K. Chesterton I learned one important saying while in the armed forces, "Be a sponge. Suck it up and drive on!" Douglas E. Newsom Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for. If Sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. Sir George Potter You fall out of your mothers womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. Quentin Crisp No enemy would bomb this place and end this confusion. It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2009. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/wwar.html |