Previous Quote of the week

Most favored quote: "War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill

"I Favor JFK's declaration"

"Any use of weapons of mass destruction originating in Iraq against any other country will be viewed as a direct attack on the United States and will be met with our full retaliatory capability." Then we declare victory and go home.

"When you become like your enemy, your enemy has won."
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

The cost of something, is what I call LIFE, required to pay for it, immediately or in the long run.
--Henry Thoreau

"I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully discovered 10,000 ways that will not work."
--Thomas Edison

"I fear we have awakened the sleeping giant!"
---Admiral Yamamoto
(after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December7th, 1941)

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
...Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height.
---William Shakespeare
(King Henry V, Act III, Scene 2)

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