"The thing is, Sims was not playing. She did understand the situation, just as well as I did. But she still took those oaths, she was still serious about them, deadly serious, and there is nothing so dangerous as an enemy who leaves themselves so few limitations.... They will go right to the limit of their oaths, if the situation calls for it. Sims and Caeghlin didn't kill anyone when they destroyed Willan's Olympus Mons facility, but the crater that used to be a volcano is still visible from Homeworld with an amateur's telescope."
Nick Fury: I thought this guy was a pacifist! Thor: (grinning) A pacifist with a big, scary hammer.
John Hancock: Mr. Franklin, where do you stand on the war issue? Benjamin Franklin: I believe that if we are to form a new country, we cannot be a country that appears war-hungry and violent to the rest of the world. However, we also cannot be a country that appears weak and unwilling to fight to the rest of the world. So, what if we form a country that appears to want both?
Thomas Jefferson: Yes. Yes, of course. We go to war, and protest going to war at the same time.
John Dickinson: Right. If the people of our new country are allowed to do whatever they wish, then some will support the war and some will protest it.
Benjamin Franklin: And that means that as a nation, we could go to war with whomever we wished, but at the same time, act like we didn't want to. If we allow the people to protest what the government does, then the country will be forever blameless.
John Adams:(holding a slice of chocolate cake) It's like having your cake, and eating it, too.
Congressman: Think of it: an entire nation founded on saying one thing and doing another.