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"If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations."
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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
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"To hold a pen is to be at war."
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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
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"That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians."
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"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."
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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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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
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"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
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"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
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"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment."
Nation
"The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble."
Society
"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."
History
"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other."
War
"Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena."
Leadership
"If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes."
Peace
"By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies."
War
"South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake."
Beginning
"Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy."
Politics
"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
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