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- The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton
- A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
- You can't fight in here....this is the War Room!!
- President Muckley (Peter Sellers) to Gen. Buck Turgeson (Geroge C. Scott) while wrestling with Russian ambassador in Dr. Strangelove
- I've been to one world's fair, a picnic and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard come over a set of headphones.
- Major Kong (Slim Pickins) in Dr. Strangelove
- Well boys, looks like it's nu'clr combat, toe-to-toe with the Rooskies.
- Major Kong (Slim Pickins) in Dr. Strangelove
- (Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids.
- Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
- Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
- Budd Schulberg
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