Ambrose Bierce Quotes on War
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Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
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Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
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Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack.
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Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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Neighbor, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.