War and Peace
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tiny.ag/vykjqus7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/b5lrmegw · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/s7ezrvqx · ★★☆☆ Fair (278 ratings) · submitted 1997
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/xmilhqgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/abk7huzh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1236 ratings) · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/4exni0iq · ★★☆☆ Fair (270 ratings) · submitted 1997
Draft beer, not people.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/6gqwgydb · ★★☆☆ Fair (236 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/konajjqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (675 ratings) · submitted (updated 17:20)
Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/xrdfngoo · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Unknown, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/hfj4loeb · ★★☆☆ Fair (825 ratings) · submitted 1998
The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.
tiny.ag/is5ffzu6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (304 ratings) · submitted 1997
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
tiny.ag/rh5oemag · ★★☆☆ Fair (590 ratings) · submitted 1997
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/rb8m34k9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (968 ratings) · submitted 1999
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/owyunzte · ★★☆☆ Fair (354 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/phdwhmxt · ★★☆☆ Fair (632 ratings) · submitted 1997
I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero, in War and Peace
tiny.ag/dgf0pdxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
tiny.ag/pfpxawj8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill, (on Korean War negotiations), in War and Peace
tiny.ag/ircejxuc · ★★☆☆ Fair (494 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
tiny.ag/ymliwjpf · ★★☆☆ Fair (483 ratings) · submitted 1997
War is not nice.
tiny.ag/crui0h1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (377 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in War and Peace
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