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 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! 
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you read more
If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work. •Henry Lewis Stimson War is like love, it always finds a way.
We make war that we may live in peace.
We make war that we may live in peace.
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these read more
I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.