Friday, October 19, 2007
"It is well that war is so terrible; else we would grow too fond of it."--Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), U.S. general. Said to another general during the battle of Fredericksburg (1862).
"All wars are popular for the first thirty days."--Attributed to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917- ), U.S. historian.
"You no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."--Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), U.S. legislator.
“The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives.”Sir Winston Churchill
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." - Woody Allen
General Douglas MacArthur "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
“I've got to go to meet God - and explain all those men I killed at Alamein.” Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery in 1976.
Albert Einstein "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn"- Unknown
Ronald Reagan "History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. "
"Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them"- Unknown
"At a minimum, a benefit of any War is that we realize, 'hey, we shan't do that again'." -JMH
"We must ensure that any War is waged only to destroy Hate, for any other reason, it is for the destruction of Freedom" -JMH
George Bush "Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever"- Thomas Edison
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