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War Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.
- The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably…
- But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and…
- Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story unless that…
- War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's…
- The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
- It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe,…
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do…
- There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so…
- The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
More War Quotes
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- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare