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To: John Lenin
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
--Dwight Eisenhower 1953 speech

Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy.
--Gary Busey

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men
--Georges Clemenceau

There is a war going on between law enforcement and privacy, and privacy is losing.
--Steve Chapman

In war there is no prize for the runner-up
--General Omar Bradley

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
--General Douglas MacArthur

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
--William Shakespeare King Henry V , Act 3 scene ?

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
--Sir Winston Churchill

So long as there are men there will be wars
--Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
--Albert Einstein

Nuclear war would really set back cable.
--Ted Turner

The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.
--Saint Augustine

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
--Jeannette Rankin first woman Member of Congress

The opposite of war is not peace, It's creation
--Jonathan Larson Rent

WAR! - Huuuh - What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
--Edwin Starr

The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification.
--Rep. Tom Delay majority whip, US House of Representatives

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

This war will not be over by the next commercial break
--US spokeperson talking to reporters during the Gulf War

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
--Patrick Henry March 23,1775

What's the use of sending a $2 million missile into a $10 tent to hit a camel in the butt?
--George W. Bush

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. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
--WOPR - In the movie "War Games" after learning the futility of "playing" Global Thermonuclear War by playing a seemingly endless series of games of Tic-Tac-Toe with itself.

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
--Ernest Hemingway

Either war is obsolete or men are.
--R. Buckminster Fuller


38 posted on 11/11/2002 9:24:04 PM PST by Andy from Beaverton
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To: Andy from Beaverton
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men --Georges Clemenceau

"War is too serious a matter to entrust to politicians"--Gen. Jack D. Ripper

42 posted on 11/13/2002 7:17:57 PM PST by Hugin
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