A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.
战争是一个球拍。毫无疑问。但是战争是政客们的骗局，而不是士兵们的。
We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.
我们很快就要走上战争的道路，在那里仁慈是不明智的，仁慈是没有地位的。
All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.
恐怖统治时期的所有恐怖都是基于对公众安宁的关注。
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
美德是一种战争状态，要生活在其中，我们必须与自己斗争。
No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
现在没有人是战前的他们了。没有人能把它找回来。
In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Good Will.
在战争中:决心;在失败中:蔑视;在胜利中:宽宏大量;在和平中:善意。
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
战争使我们这些住在地球上的平凡小人物变成了奇怪的庞然大物。
Child of G-d, therefore children of G-d, therefore brothers. All wars are civil wars.
上帝的孩子，上帝的孩子，上帝的兄弟。所有的战争都是内战。
I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for and not before.
如果有一个我认为值得为之牺牲而不是为之牺牲的事业，我将奔赴战场。
If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted.
如果妇女统治世界，就不会有战争。但是，我们都将被流产。
In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.
在一场战争中，对你所要为之战斗的任何一点怀疑都可能意味着死亡。
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
没有什么比做好迎接敌人的准备更有可能带来和平了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.
我们能做的最糟糕的事情，绝对最糟糕的事情，就是什么也不做。
Arrived too late. Act already done.
来得太迟了。行动已经完成。
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
滑铁卢战役很可能是在伊顿公学的操场上打赢的，但后来所有战争的首场战役都在那里输掉了。
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
在准备战斗时，我总是发现计划是无用的，但计划是必不可少的。
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
我不怕一群由羊带领的狮子;我害怕狮子带领的羊群。
War doesn’t start with an explosion. It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.
战争不是从爆炸开始的。它承载着更微妙的含义。在锅底下炖，就像把肉汤煮开一样。