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War
- "In war, the moral is to the material as three is to one." - Napoleon Bonaparte
- "Sweat saves blood." - Erwin Rommel
- "War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men" - Georges Clemenceau
- "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 1
- "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
- The ancient Roman expression "if you want peace prepare for war" is from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius. In Latin: "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." Actual Translation: "Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war."
- "The purpose of all war is ultimately peace." - Saint Augustine
- "War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left" -anonymous
- "Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!" (Stonewall Jackson's reply to Colonel B.E. Bee when he reported that the enemy were beating them back. At the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861)
- "It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
- "War is hell." William Tecumseh Sherman
- "War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided." - Philip Bobbitt, in "The Shield of Achilles"
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