Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: politics war weapons government guns military military-budget poverty
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
Douglas MacArthurPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George OrwellTags: violence military police
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
Tags: military
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
Tags: military
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: military volunteerism soldier soldiering
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: military
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
Nathan Bedford ForrestTags: war military fighting civil-war
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: military
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