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War Quotes
"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."
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"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism."
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"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
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"I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can."
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"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
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"As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits."
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"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."
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"As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World."
1
"Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce."
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"Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present."
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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
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"It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour."
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"On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration."
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"War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent."
War,
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"We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II."
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"From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality."
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"By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project."
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"I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war."
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"Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular."
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"The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war."
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"Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune."
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"The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again."
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"The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War."
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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
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"We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill."
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"The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people."
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"First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights."
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"The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it."
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"For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war."
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"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."
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"Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will."
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"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."
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