I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778
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A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbIf the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830