Alphonse Allais Quotes

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The number of British officers killed and wounded on June 17 represented a quarter of those killed and wounded in the entire Revolutionary War.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

Every day, we are assassinating nearly 16,000 additional victims.

If millions are born millions must die.

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many civilians to understand the sacrifices military families make. However, my experience is that after the Vietnam War, the public learned that they should support the military whether or not they support the war. You've seen that outpouring of support for the veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured

In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.

You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.