Archive for the ‘War’ Category

Omar N. Bradley on War

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

- Omar N. Bradley

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Thomas A. Edison on War

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

- Thomas A. Edison

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George S. Patton on War

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

- George S. Patton

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Gregory Clark on War

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

- Gregory Clark

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Adolf Hitler on War

Friday, June 13th, 2008

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

- Adolf Hitler

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Ronald Reagan on War

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

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.

- Ronald Reagan

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Jeannette Rankin on War

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

- Jeannette Rankin

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Sun Tzu on War

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

All war is deception.

- Sun Tzu

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William Westmoreland on War

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

- William Westmoreland

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Bertrand Russell on War

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

- Bertrand Russell

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