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"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
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"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage."
"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."
"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
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"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."
"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
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