Emily Barham
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Context: War isn't a fraud, Charlie, it's very real. At least that's what you always tried to tell me, isn't it? That we shall never get rid of war by pretending it's unreal? It's the virtue of war that's the fraud, not war itself. It's the valor and the self-sacrifice and the goodness of war that needs the exposing. And here you are being brave and self-sacrificing, positively clanking with moral fervor, perpetuating the very things you detest merely to do "the right thing". Honestly, Charlie, your conversion to morality is really quite funny. All this time I've been terrified of becoming Americanized, and you, you silly ass, have turned into a bloody Englishman
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“Let fraud supply the want of force in war.”
From Book II of Dryden's Aeneid; no exact Latin equivalent exists in Virgil's work, but compare: "Dolus, an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?" (Aeneid 2.390).
Misattributed
“Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.”
Campaign ad, quoted in Newsweek (23 June 2008), p. 21
2000s, 2008
Speech to the American Red Cross "Promise of Humanity" conference http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Newscenter.ViewPressRelease&Content_id=820 (6 May 1999).
1990s
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
“Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.”
Hardball with Chris Matthews, November 16 2004
2000s
“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 15
“The opposite of war isn't peace… It's creation!”
Rent (1996)
