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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They shall not pass till the stars be darkened:
Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;
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They shall not pass till the stars be darkened:
Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;
Never a groan but God has harkened,
Counting their cruelties one by one.
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All read more
It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment read more
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior read more
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power read more
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic read more
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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!
