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Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:42 pm
by Professor
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:43 pm
by Professor
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:44 pm
by Professor
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:45 pm
by Professor
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:49 pm
by Professor
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

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:50 pm
by Professor
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonapart

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:51 pm
by Professor
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:51 pm
by Professor
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:52 pm
by Professor
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Re: war qoutes

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:53 pm
by Professor
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell