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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did … Continue reading
In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. - Herodotus
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. - Oscar Wilde
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. - Anon
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. This world in arms is not … Continue reading
In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade … Continue reading
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.) - Horace
The Middle Eastern states aren’t nations; they’re quarrels with borders. - P. J. ORourke
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. - Paul Eldridge