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• To secure peace is to prepare for war. -- Carl von Clausewitz
• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....
• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, - from Hermann und Dorothea...
• Our swords shall play the orators for us. -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
• Our swords shall play the orators for us. -- Christopher Marlowe
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thougths, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
  -- Florence Scovel Shi...
• We must further expressly and exactly establish the point of view, no less necessary in practice, from which war is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
  -- Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)...
• We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousne
  he cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. -- Walter Lippma...