| Quotations on the subject: War & Military |
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
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There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once "The Unnecessary War".
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich don't want to buy anything.
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