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War Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
- Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
- What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence…
- Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,…
- Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough…
- Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.
- REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of…
- LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in…
- WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
- No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
- Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
- War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
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