"A man-of-war is the best ambassador." -Oliver Cromwell
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - Col. David H. Hackworth
"A war put off is not a war avoided." - Charlton Heston
"All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"In space, all warriors are cold warriors." - ChangFamous Military quotes
"In war there is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur
"It is war that shapes peace, and armament that shapes war." -Fuller
"It is good that war is so terrible, else we should become accustomed to it." - Robert E. Lee
"Make deals, not war." - Swindle
Fighters are our salvation, But BOMBERS alone provide us with the means of VICTORY! - Winston Curchill
The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not. - Robert Heinlein
"Moderation in war is imbecility." Admiral John Fisher
"Patriotism...is the egg from which wars are hatched." -de Maupassant
"Peace is an extension of war by political means." - Heinlein
"The fear of war is worse than war itself." -Seneca
"There'll always be another war." -- Frank Burns
"There's only one truth about war: people die." - Sheridan
"This means war!" "I thought it meant touchdown?" - Animaniacs
"This was a great war until you guys showed up."-Burns, to Trap & Hawk
"To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war." -Napoleon
"WAR : We Are Right" - Chief Elder, Pangaea
"War and whiskey don't mix." -- General Steele
"War is a matter of vital importance to the state." -Sun Tzu
"War is an organized bore." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale." -Clausewitz
"War is peace." - George Orwell's 1984
"War is the playground of the ignorant." -- Highbrow
"War is the science of destruction." -Abbott
"We have War when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants Peace." -- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
"War is the usual condition of Europe." -Kropotkin
"War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason." -Clausewitz
"War isn't a good life, but it's life." - Kirk
"War would end if the dead could return." - Stanley Baldwin
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war! --Shakespeare.
In love there are two evils: war and peace. - Horace, 65-8BC
In time of war the laws are silent. - Cicero
Remember the cold war? How pre-millennial!
Remember when a trojan was a warrior?
Stop trying to bring the war in under budget. - BJ to Maj. Burns
The side with the simplest uniforms wins. 'Maj Mark Cancian
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 ~ (1868)
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