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tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (3018 ratings) · submitted 1997

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

tiny.ag/ldizacqu · ★★☆☆ Fair (337 ratings) · submitted 1997

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

tiny.ag/owyunzte · ★★☆☆ Fair (354 ratings) · submitted 1997

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/pfpxawj8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997

To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

tiny.ag/ircejxuc · ★★☆☆ Fair (494 ratings) · submitted 1997

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

tiny.ag/ymliwjpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (483 ratings) · submitted 1997

War is not nice.

tiny.ag/tldrjftc · ★★☆☆ Fair (1115 ratings) · submitted 1997

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace

tiny.ag/2kf4ndl1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (269 ratings) · submitted 1997

War is menstruation envy.

tiny.ag/idqkjfr5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (895 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Gord Weitzel

When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.

tiny.ag/zsldl2jb · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997

When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.

tiny.ag/yy2e1ad8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997

Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have?

tiny.ag/ypqqlw9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (672 ratings) · submitted 1998

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

War and Peace