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“My philosophy
like colour TV
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in black and white”
Monty Python

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War & the Military

 An army's weapons are made by the lowest bidder. 
Anonymous
 Draft beer; not people. 
Anonymous
 Friendly fire isn't. 
Anonymous
 If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, paint it. 
Anonymous
 It is not known with what weapon World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
 Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. 
Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
 No guts, no glory. No brain, same story. 
Anonymous
 Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. 
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
 Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. 
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
 Old soldiers never die; young ones do. 
Anonymous
 Only the Dead have seen the end of War. 
George Santayana (1863-1952)
 Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. 
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
 The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. 
Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
 The price of peace is eternal vigilance. 
Leonard Courtney (1832-1918)
 Their's not to reason why, their's but to do and die. 
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
 There are three types of intelligence: human, animal, and military; in that order. 
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
 Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. 
Anonymous
 Two rules you must always remember: 1; Never give out all the information. 
Anonymous
 War doesn't determine who's right; it determines who's left. 
Anonymous
 War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. 
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
 We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. 
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
 Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols? 
Edward Whittemore (1933-1995)
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