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Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews. — Bryan Fischer

The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead. — Joe Abercrombie

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. — Todd Stocker

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. — Joseph Heller

Dead men never pick up their trophies. — Michael Weisskopf

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show. — Ronald Reagan

Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
So be merry, so be dead. — Charles Sorley

So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war. — Nevil Shute

If the tears I've shed for my fallen comrades and this nation were blood I'd be dead ...
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Disabled Gulf War Veteran — Stanley Victor Paskavich

War, for most women, is about the destiny of one person. For me, it became three - the one I feared was dead, and the two of you who now are. — Phyllis Edgerly Ring

I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties. — John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair

War would end if the dead could return. — Stanley Baldwin

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise. — Jefferson Davis

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead. — Konrad Adenauer

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid. — James A. Garfield

Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead? — Michelle Sagara West

I'm into zombie movies like 'World War Z' and the shows 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead.' — Phillip Phillips

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie. — Anacreon

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Only the dead have seen the end of war. — Plato

Asgard has fallen. The gods are dead. The old oaths have been broken. And tell all who will hear: the Valkyrie ride to war. — Pierce Brown

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home. — Will Rogers

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead. — Hamilcar Barca

Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead. — Ken Follett

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Kim Stanley Robinson

We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace. — Anthony Liccione

If the dead could speak there would be no more war. — Heinrich Boll

Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many good men. — Christopher Titus

Only the dead will know the end of the war. — Plato

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Barry remembered his dad saying that the casualties of war couldn't be counted only among the dead and the wounded. — Patrick Taylor

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! — Paddy Chayefsky

All the gods are dead except the god of war. — Eldridge Cleaver

The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead — Alan Dean Foster

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead. — Emily Dickinson

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances. — Aleksandr Voinov

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead. — Ken Gillespie

I think war is a crime. If you don't believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead. — Michael McCormick

If a bomb has your name on it, you are dead whatever you do; and if not, it will miss you. — James Lingard

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story
the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit. — Hugh Howey

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead? — Erwin Rommel

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them. — Seth Grahame-Smith

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. — Elie Wiesel

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die
in bed. — Siegfried Sassoon

We were always dead against the war. — Bertie Ahern

Society advances further on the backs of the living than it does on the backs of its dead. — Allan McLeod

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield. — Muriel Spark

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others. — Alex Scarrow

Only the dead have seen the end of the war. — George Santayana

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. — John Le Carre

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war. — Plato

War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end. — Mitch Rowland

The day is won [ ... ] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot. — George R R Martin

What did Plato say?" "He said, 'It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.'" "And — Elizabeth Hunter

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln

Boys have never been to war. It's easy to believe that it's all a game. That the dead will get up off the grass in time for tea. — Charles Todd

In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon.
- al'Lan Mandragoran — Robert Jordan

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait. — Primo Levi

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. — George Bernard Shaw

War is about dead people. — Scott Ritter

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do. — Steven Galloway

You are familiar with World War 2?"
"Of course I am. I'm dead, not stupid. — Donna Augustine

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory. — Alexander Suvorov

I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together. — Emory Upton

Not even the dead know the end to war.
-Iskar Jarak — Steven Erikson

I war not with the dead. — Homer

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead ... ' — Christopher Flynn

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead. — Nikita Khrushchev

A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you'll ever see. — Christian Cameron

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix. — Edith Pargeter

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead. — Katherine L. Walker

We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE. — Joseph Shellim

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead. — Joseph Bruchac

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

I make war on the living, not the dead. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance? — Eugene B. Sledge

Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we're training him to kill the living? — Robert Kirkman

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man. — Erich Maria Remarque

Only the dead has seen th end of war — Mirza Tabish