War - Philosophy IX

[BLUEHAWK]

"War is much to serious a thing to be left to the military."
Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"War is the national industry of Prussia."
Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)

"War is the trade of Kings."
John Dryden (1631-1700)

"War its ten thousand slays, Peace its ten thousands."
Beilby Porteus (1731-1808)

"War lays a burden on the reeling state,
And peace does nothing to relieve the weight."

"But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play it."
William Cowper (1731-1800)

"My argument is that War makes rattling good history, but peace is poor reading."

"Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.

Only thin smoke without flame
From the heaps of couch grass;
Yet this will go onward the same
Though Dynasties pass.

Yonder a maid and her wight
Come whispering by:
War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die."
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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[Desdichado]

"He's a cheery old card", cried Harry to Jack,
As they trudged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
But he did for them both, with his plan of attack...

[Houdini]

War is cruelty,the crueler it is the faster it's over.

General Sherman

[BLUEHAWK]

Nice patch Houdini, what is it?

[Houdini]

General Sherman wrote that right after riding through Georgia.He wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln when he reached the sea telling him he had made it with a phrase similar to..."I have reached the sea Mr.President and I am now heading into the heart of the Rebellion.You may hear reports of cruelty but war is cruel and the crueler it is the faster it's over."