[m21sniper]

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."
~ Winston Churchill

"It is more difficult to organize peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not well organized."
~ Aristotle

"Dulce bellum inexpertis. — War is lovely for those who know nothing about it."
~ Erasmus Rotterdamus

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead."
~ Ernest Hemingway

"Who would desire peace, prepare for war. Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum"
~ Flavius Vegetius Renatus

"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon- no alternative."
~ Golda Meir

"War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle."
~ John Singleton Mosby

"After war, It's easy to be happy.
~ me

"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."
~ Robert Lynd

"Chains are worse than bayonets."
~ Douglas Jerrold

"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue."
~ Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Steady boys. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance" ~Major General John Sedgwick's last words, 9 May, 1864, just before he was shot dead by a Confederate sharpshooter

"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."
~ John Adams

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
~ Voltaire

"Kill no more pigeons than you can eat."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
~ Winston Churchill

"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."
~ Bill Maher

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."
~ Elbert Hubbard

"Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another over it."
~ George Bernard Shaw

"I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable."
~ Henry David Thoreau

"That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast."
~Me

"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
~ Simone Weil

"You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times each day."
~ Ambrose Bierce

"I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous."
~ Jack Nicholson/Col. Nathan R. Jessop in A Few Good Men (1992)

"The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is also in ours."
~ Sigmund Freud

"it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others."
~ Voltaire

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
~Voltaire

"Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities."
~Voltaire

"Liberty of thought is the life of the soul."
~Voltaire

"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."
~Voltaire

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
~Voltaire

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
~Voltaire

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
~Voltaire

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."
!Voltaire

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."
~Voltaire

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
~Voltaire

"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
~Voltaire

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~Voltaire

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
~Voltaire

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."
~Voltaire

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other."
~Voltaire

“The first few times I experienced a B-52 attack it seemed, as I strained to press myself into the bunker floor, that I had been caught in the Apocalypse. The terror was complete. One lost control of bodily functions as the mind screamed incomprehensible orders to get out.”
~Former Viet Cong Guerilla, Truong Nhu Tang

"My aim was to whip the rebels. To humble their pride. To follow them to their innermost recesses, and to make them fear and dread us. 'Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom'"
~William Tecumseh Sherman

"altus volo mugio extraho"(High Speed Low drag)

"I got tired of coming up with last minute desperate solutions to impossible problems created by other ****ing people."
"Let this be a learning experience, gentleman. If you resist we will kill you and the man next to you. Now move out of here in an orderly fashion."
"All of my life... Saturday morning cartoons. The best."
"Never been caught. Beep beep."
"You have faith. I don't!
"Make Honolulu glow in the dark."
"Hence the name: movement. It moves a certain distance, then it stops, you see? A revolution gets its name by always coming back around in your face. Welcome to the revolution!"
~William Stranex

"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp
rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all this evening they would be reporting news from Hell before breakfast. "[/SIZE]
~WT Sherman

"For a war to be won, it is not enough for one side to claim victory. It is also necessary for one side to admit defeat. Yet in the Arab-Israeli wars, the side that had won every time was not allowed to claim victory, while the side that had lost was prevented from admitting defeat. Why? Because each time the United Nations had intervened to put the victor and the vanquished on an equal basis and lock them into a problematic situation in the name of a mythical quest for an impossible peace."
~Amir Taheri

"Forget rationality, there is nothing more vengeful than a terrified Soccer Mom."
~M21sniper