War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
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Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a read more
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
War is the science of destruction.
War is the science of destruction.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before read more
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. •Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. •Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. •Chinese Proverb Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
She is a wall of brass;
You shall not pass! You shall not pass!
Spring up like read more
She is a wall of brass;
You shall not pass! You shall not pass!
Spring up like Summer grass,
Surge at her, mass on mass,
Still shall you break like glass,
Splinter and break like shivered glass,
But pass?
You shall not pass!
