War and Peace Quotes - Or not learning from history...

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I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you - Machiavelli


The graveyards are full of indispensable men - Charles de Gaulle


If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia - Hans Albrecht Bethe


One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war - Albert Einstein


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him a spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. —Albert Einstein


Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice - Baruch Spinoza


Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace - John Fitzgerald Kennedy


The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars - William Westmoreland


It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate - George McGovern


I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in - George McGovern



QUOTES FROM THAT 'OTHER' DICTATOR:

"Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security." - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator (1933)

"We have concluded a non-aggression pact with Denmark." - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator (before the conquest of Denmark)

"National Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe... The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation... Germany needs peace and desires peace!" - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator (May 21, 1935)

"First, we swear to yield to no force whatever in restoration of the honor of our people... Secondly, we pledge that now, more than ever, we shall strive for an understanding between the European peoples, especially for one with our Western neighbor nations... We have no territorial demands to make in Europe!... Germany will never break the peace!" - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator (after Nazi troops had marched in the Rhinelandin 1936)

"The spirit of the great men of our history must hearten us all. Fate demands from us no more than from the great men of German history. As long as I live I shall think only of the victory of my people. I shall shrink from nothing and shall annihilate everyone who is opposed to me... I want to annihilate the enemy!" - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator

"Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!"
- Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator (after the RAF's first attack on Nazi shipyard at Bremen)

"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live." - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator

"Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world". - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator

"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future." - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator

"I swear by God this sacred oath, that I will render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Fuehrer of the German Reich and people, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and will be ready as a brave soldier to risk my life at any time for this oath." - German Armed Forces Oath of Loyality

"There will be a class of subject alien races; we need not hesitate to call them slaves." - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator

"A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow." - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator

"Close your hearts to pity! Act brutally! Eighty million people must obtain what is their right... The stronger man is right... Be harsh and remorseless! Be steeled against all signs of compassion!... Whoever has pondered over this world order knows that its meaning lies in the success of the best by means of force..." - Adolf Hitler, Nazi Dictator (1939, speaking to his military chiefs about starting the war)

"Strength lies not in defense but in attack." - Adolf Hitler


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