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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Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?
Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
