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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones
Albert Einstein

"Our voyages are very educational... We learn about the natives before we slaughter them." - Nescaf (Asterix and the Normans)

"640 Kilobytes of computer memory ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, 1981

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. - Bill Gates

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. ~Author Unknown

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ~Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word it is victory. Victory at all costs - victory in spite of all terrors - victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival. Winston Churchill

"I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging son of a bitch Hitler." General George S. Patton