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William Halsey

"If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air."

William Halsey, American Soldier
War, Land, Sea, Want
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"What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war."

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"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."

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"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"

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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President
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"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."

Lloyd Alexander, American Writer
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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author
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"Nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds."

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"The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it."

Jim Harrison, American Writer
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"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist
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