In war, truth is the first casualty.
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In war, truth is the first casualty.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
The real war will never get in the books.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
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