Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war). — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
“Miss Blanche, having given through her tears a complete account of this event, assured me that, to maintain our own parental love… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“In Poland there is a meaning to defeat that perhaps is unknown in countries differently situated. Along with a strong sense of… — Jan Karski Copy Share Image
“warfare would be waged west of the Mississippi as it had been earlier against the Abenakis, Cherokees, Shawnees, Muskogees, and even Christian… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
“Technology has its own ethic of expediency and efficiency. What can be done efficiently must be done in the most efficient way—even… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The first ‘networked era’ followed the introduction of the printing press to Europe in the late fifteenth century and lasted until the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“The face-off quickly escalated into an existential confrontation between the two sides of the White House—two sides on a total war footing.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
