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"Threats without power are like powder without ball."
- Nathan Bailey

"If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun."
   - James Baker

"We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here."
-Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.
- Julien Benda

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
-Tony Benn

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia
- Hans Albrecht Bethe

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience
- Otto Von Bismark (Germany’s first Chancellor 1871-1890)

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
-Otto Von Bismarck

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
-Otto Von Bismarck

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-Otto Von Bismarck

Politics is not an exact science.
-Otto Von Bismarck

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
-Otto Von Bismarck

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
-Otto Von Bismarck

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
-Otto Von Bismarck

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
-Otto Von Bismarck

"Next stop Kuwait! We're going to go fast and go violently!"
- Liutenant-General Walter E. Boomer, 15 February 1991.
To his staff shortly before Desert Storm

Every plan of campaign ought to have several branches and to have been so well thought out that one or other of the said branches cannot fail of success.
- Bourchet

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
-Adapted from Henry G. Bohn

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. 
-General Omar N. Bradley ,U.S. Army, 1950

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. 
General Omar N. Bradley 1951

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.
- General Omar N. Bradley

"I learned that good judgement comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes."
- General Omar N. Bradley

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
- General Omar N. Bradley

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- General Omar N. Bradley

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
- General Omar N. Bradley

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- General Omar N. Bradley

War is like love; it always finds a way
- Bertolt Brecht

"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie." 
-H. Rap Brown,press conference 1967

"Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner."
- Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682

"The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible"
- Major-General John Burgoyne, 1777

"Success can not be administrated"
- Admiral Arleigh Burke, 1962

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward. Freedom will be defended!
-President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.
-President George W. Bush, October 13, 2001

“For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating”
-George w. Bush at a speech at The Citadel, Dec 11, 2001.

“I gave them a fair warning”
-President George w. Bush, Oct. 8 when deciding on military action against the Taliban

These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
-President George W. Bush

"We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge."
-President George W. Bush to graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in June 2002

"What our enemies have begun, we will finish," 
- President George W. Bush in his address to the nation on September 11, 2002.

I want to record my strong conviction that the risks entailed by nuclear weapons are far too great to leave the prospects of their elimination solely within the province with governments.
- Gen Lee Butler, USAF 1961-94. 
(Commander-in-Chief of United States Strategic Command. Planning and operational responsibilities for all U.S. strategic nuclear forces. Also served as a member of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons)

The terror-filled anaesthesia which numbed rational thought, made nuclear war thinkable and grossly excessive arsenals possible during the Cold War is gradually wearing off. A renewed appreciation for the obscene power of a single nuclear weapon is taking a new hold on our consciousness, as we confront the nightmarish prospect of nuclear terror at the micro level.
- Gen Lee Butler

We are not condemned to repeat the lessons of forty years at the nuclear brink. We can do better than condone a world in which nuclear weapons are enshrined as the ultimate arbiter of conflict. The price already paid is too dear, the risks run too great. The nuclear beast must be chained, its soul expunged, its lair laid waste. The task is daunting but we cannot shrink from it. The opportunity may not come again.
- Gen Lee Butler

What, then, does the future hold? How do we proceed? Can a consensus be forged that nuclear weapons have no defensible role, that the political and human consequences of their employment transcends any asserted military utility, that as weapons of mass destruction, the case for their elimination is a thousand fold stronger and more urgent that for deadly chemicals and viruses already widely declared illegitimate, subject to destruction and prohibited from any future production? I believe that such a consensus in not only possible, it is imperative ad is in fact growing daily.
- Gen Lee Butler

"The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to have its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."
-Sir William Francis Butler

"What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements."
- Lord Byron (1788-1824),

He makes a solitude, and calls it – peace! 
- Lord Byron, 1788-1824

He who loves not his country can love nothing.
- Lord Byron, 1788-1824