"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy."

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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."

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"Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket."

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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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"Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq."

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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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."

James Reston, American Journalist

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"To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

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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."

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