"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"

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"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"

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"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."

Omar N. Bradley, American Soldier

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"I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War."

Larry David, American Actor

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"That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

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"We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy."

Joe Baca, American Politician

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"However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops."

Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier

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"Anyway, there were more after the war than before."

Hutton Gibson, American Writer

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"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."

Tony Greig, South African Athlete

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"We are a nation at war - and we should act like it."

Peter King, American Politician

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"All oppression creates a state of war."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"

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"Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you."

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"The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route."

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"A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable."

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"I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux."

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"Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines."

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"If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name."

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"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."

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