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The sinews of war are infinite money.

If this phrase of the ‘balance of power’ is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.