“It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.”— Ross Perot, ranker.com
“If women ruled the world there would be no wars. Just periods of very tense negotiations once a month”— 1MinuteMaster, reddit.com
“Wife: If women ruled the world there would be no wars. Husband: That is true - wars require strategy and logic.”— icp1994, reddit.com
“But whereas it is most certain that the King doth not only make speedy preparation in Spain, but likewise expecteth a very great fleet from the Straits and divers other places to join with his forces to invade England, we purpose to set apart all fear of danger, and by God’s furtherance to proceed b…”— Francis Drake, amazon.com
“There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too.”— Francis Drake, amazon.com
“Coming up unto them, there has passed some cannon shot between some of our fleet and some of them, and so far as we perceive they are determined to sell their lives with blows.”— Francis Drake, en.wikiquote.org
“The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. While the Chief Magistrate and the popular branch of Congress are elected for short terms by the suffrages of those millions who must in their own persons bear all the burdens and miseries of war, our Government can not be other…”— James K. Polk, thoughtco.com
“An extensive field investigation into the origins of Isis’ weaponry in Syria and Iraq has found that weapons supplied by the US and Saudi Arabia to the Syrian opposition often ended up in the jihadis’ hands, enhancing the “quantity and quality” of their armaments.”— Bethan McKernan, independent.co.uk
“The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“No great power, even if its government strives towards it, can send out a large army to fight against another allied power, another great power, since in the present day no one can wage war without their own people, and the people don't want to fight. The nations [of the world] are tired of war.”— Joseph Stalin, digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org
“Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.”— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org
“We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.”— Joseph Stalin, marx2mao.com
“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”— Joseph Stalin, marx2mao.com
“I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side. And right now we’ve got work to do.”— Steve Bannon, wsj.com
“We can now take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than anybody has ever known. It does not have to be "you or me," so selfishness is unnecessary and war is obsolete.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined t…”— Sam Houston, amazon.co.uk
“Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.”— Sam Houston, amazon.co.uk