8 Ambrose Bierce Quotes on War

Ambrose Bierce quotes on war

2. Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.

20. Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

30. Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack.

36. Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

60. Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

61. Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.

105. There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

106. War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.