engines of war

Forbidden to make engines of war, Japan made automobiles instead, and won the world.

Concepts of honor, courage, strength and nationhood, which stoked the engines of war for millennia, are channeled into the Olympics to be played out on fields of sport, not fields of battle.

In vast caverns beneath the rearing walls, provisions of every sort were stored and labeled; in the arsenals and magazines, engines of war were being calibrated, armed, and tested; in the mills below the mountain, volcanic fires fed mighty forges where phosphor and titanium were being melted and combined in alloys never known or used before.

By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world.

And the young people said, Jeremy shall bring peace unto all nations, for he hateth the engines of war that take wing across the heavens.