War Quotes & Sayings (Wars, Warfare, Militaries, Combat, Soldiers, Anti- War, etc). O war, thou son of hell,Whom angry heavens do make their minister. Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part. Hot coals of vengeance!.~William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (V, 2, Young Clifford)Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. Fuchs. I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, . Mencken, 1. 93. 0The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. Wells, Things to Come (the . Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. This world in arms is not spending money alone. ![]() It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1. April 1. 95. 3The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums. Lee, letter to his wife, 1. Everyone's a pacifist between wars. White Light/Black Rain: Hiroshima and. Military and War - 86 min - . The Truth Game. Find out more about the history of Korean War, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com. God of War III is an action-adventure game with hack and slash elements. It's a third-person, single-player video game. As with previous installments, the player. Grognard.com - Wargames that begin with the letter W. All About WW3. The start date of WW3, leaders in WW3, timeline and statistics of World War 3. Also called the Third World War, or World War Three. Prepare for WW3. ![]() It's like being a vegetarian between meals. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Eisenhower. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. Kennedy. What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile- talk. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. It is not only the living who are killed in war. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? Kirkpatrick. If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and with calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out.. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for . Prochnow. Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Senators who die. Bombing of Dresden; Part of Strategic bombing during World War II: Dresden after the bombing raid. Facts, information and articles about World War II, 1939-1945 USS Arizona Pearl Harbor World War II Facts Dates September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 Location. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Fischer (1. 87. 9–1. Feature Articles - A Slow Fuse - Hitler's World War One Experience. On 10 November, 1918, an elderly priest from Pasewalk, Germany, walked into the nearby military. Battle of El Alamein: War in the Desert (FWBX07) includes one plastic Panzer IV, one plastic Panzer III, one plastic Grant, two plastic Crusaders, two plastic Tank. They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Douglas, Jr. Is the human will as inert as the past two world- wide wars would indicate? Kennedy. War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home- court advantage. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. War is nasty; war is fun. Red Thunder Soviets in World War III When Team Yankee kicked off we gave you two sets of intelligence briefings in the rulebook to get everybody started, based on the.War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. Maybe that's why men declare war — because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis. Politicians start wars. Grant. We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. Eisenhower. In the name of peace. They waged the wars. Ain't they got no shame~Nikki Giovanni. Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. Yes, it appears solemnly in print, even now, at the end of the greatest war in history. Si vis pacem, para bellum. Being separated for the moment from my book of quotations, I cannot say who was the Roman thinker who first gave this brilliant paradox to the world, but I imagine him a fat, easy- going gentleman, who occasionally threw off good things after dinner. He never thought very much of Si vis pacem, para bellum; it was not one of his best; but it seemed to please some of his political friends, one of whom asked if he might use it in his next speech in the Senate. Our fat gentleman said: . So he quoted it, and it had a considerable vogue. Two thousand years from now people will still be quoting it, and killing each other on the strength of it. Or perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps two thousand years from now, if the English language is sufficiently dead by then, the world will have some casual paradox of Bernard Shaw's or Oscar Wilde's on its lips, passing it reverently from mouth to mouth as if it were Holy Writ, and dropping bombs on Mars to show that they know what it means. Si vis pacem, para bellum. So it follows that preparation for war means nothing. It is an action which is as likely to have been inspired by an evil motive as by a good motive. When a gentleman with a van calls for your furniture you have means of ascertaining whether he is the furniture- remover whom you ordered or the burglar whom you didn't order, but there is no way of discovering which of two Latin tags is inspiring a nation's armaments. However, I can produce a third tag in the same language, which is worth consideration. Si vis amare bellum, para bellum. It is a pity, but Universal Peace will hardly come as the result of universal preparedness for war, as these dear people seem to hope. It will only come as the result of a universal feeling that war is the most babyish and laughably idiotic thing that this poor world has evolved. Our writer says sadly that there is no hope of doing without armies—we are not angels. It is not a question of . Possibly there is no hope of either, but I think we might make an effort.~A. A. Milne (1. 88. 2–1. BC. Note: I've paraphrased Milne's essay.—t. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. It settles everything on the plane of physical force. War does not decide what is right, but what is strongest. It never decides a moral principle. It is ego — ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder- monkeys, and all marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. Short days ago. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lie. In Flanders fields..~John Mc. Crae (1. 87. 2–1. One world or none. Es un momento fugaz. How long can we even claim this small spot of peace? It is a privilege threatened by war. And war, at its most elemental, is death for all of us. With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun- flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever- faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Thanks, Barbara Schmidt of Twain. Quotes. com! If you kill a couple persons you are a gangster. If you are a crazy statesman and send millions to their deaths you are a hero. If millions die, that's only statistics. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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