| There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas Edison War and Peace |
| More from Thomas Edison |
| They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. Thomas Edison |
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| I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison |
| The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison |
| Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas Edison |
| Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. Thomas Edison |
| There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. Thomas Edison |
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| I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Thomas Edison |
| To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Edison |
| More in the War and Peace category |
| Either war is obsolete or men are. Buckminster Fuller War and Peace |
| It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory. George S. Patton War and Peace |
| I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. George S. Patton War and Peace |
| May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. George S. Patton War and Peace |
| All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood. George S. Patton War and Peace |
| War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula. George S. Patton War and Peace |
| There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. Fyodor Dostoevsky War and Peace |
| The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail. George W. Bush War and Peace |
| It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families. Tacitus War and Peace |
| He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain, will never rise to fight again. Tacitus War and Peace |
