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  • War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

    "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.
  • A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

    War   Years   Holocaust  
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

    Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.
  • All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

    Money   War   Battle  
    Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459
  • The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

    Peace   Real   War  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
  • The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

    Military   War   Mean  
  • You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

    Love   Life   God  
    Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

    War   Doors   Rotten  
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.

    War   Moon   Names  
    FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Feb 29, 2012
  • Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

    War   Taken   Army  
  • The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

    Change   War   Fighting  
  • We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

    Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796
  • Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

    War   Home   Want  
    Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.
  • The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

    Gun   Singing   Poppies  
    'In Flanders Fields' (1915)
  • The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

    Speech to Congress, 2 Apr. 1917, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 195
  • We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

    Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  • War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

    Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

    War   World   I Can  
  • I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

    Dream   Peace   Military  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

    Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941
  • The eyes of the world are upon you.

    Eye   D Day   World  
    Order of the Day, 2 June 1944
  • When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.

    War   People   Waiting  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Yesterday, December 7, 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... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

    War   Yesterday   America  
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Congress Asking That a State of War Be Declared Between the United States and Japan, www.loc.gov. December 8, 1941.
  • I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

    War   Fighting   Soldier  
  • Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  • The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

    War   World   Intention  
    Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”
  • One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

    Peace   War   Winning  
    Autobiography (1977) pt. 10
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