War (Vanity)

The Federalist ^ | 9/11/03 | Various

[aardvark1]

"If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C.S. Lewis

"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just." --Cicero

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." --Sir Winston Churchill

"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." --Thomas Paine

"...I've called for whatever it takes to be so strong that no other nation will dare violate the peace. If that means superiority, so be it. ... You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. [I]s it worth dying for...? Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools...." --Ronald Reagan

[Publius6961]

"Most people would rather die than think -- in fact, they do." --George Santayana

[Publius6961]

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 and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~~ John Stuart Mill ~~

[boingo_temp]

""If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C.S. Lewis "

Only if you consider an oil rich WMD developing fascist dictatorship promoting terrorism within your borders to be “peace”.

[ClearCase_guy]

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory; because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

- Winston Churchill