Sunday, December 9, 2012

Anonymous cynical (but true) quote.

"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading." -- Attributed (falsely) to Thomas Jefferson.

3 comments:

David Forward said...
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The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit said...

"Peace is the name of that ideal whose existence we deduce based on the fact that there have been interludes between wars."

Saw this ... I want to say Jerry Pournelle, but might have been Robert Heinlein. Where it came from to their hands, it's hard to say.

mrz80 said...

Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars. -- John Christian Falkenberg, Jerry Pournelle's "The Mercenary"