All quiet along the Potomac they say
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot as read more

All quiet along the Potomac they say
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,
By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.

The real war will never get in the books.

The real war will never get in the books.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would read more

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is read more

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.