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Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
~ George Will
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
~ Harold Pinter
There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
~ Duke of Wellington
I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.
~ Henry Ford
One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.
~ Anton Yelchin
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.
~ Eugene V. Debs
The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
~ George Washington
War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.
~ Prince Hassan bin Talal
When the shingles hissed in the rain incendiary, other values were revealed to us
~ Hilda Doolittle
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
~ Konrad Lorenz
George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.
~ Isham G. Harris
The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.
~ Thomas Macdonough
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.
~ William Monahan
As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
~ Edward Abbey
Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
~ Carroll Quigley
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
~ Kevin Powers
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
~ James Fenton
The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
~ Anthony Mason