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"War sells!"
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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."
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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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"You want war??...Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If you disire for more... it sounds like you are cruel, so far I can understand it you are the bad guy, aren't you?"
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"Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go."
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"War is what happens when language fails."
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"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."
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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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"At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong."
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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
Business
"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
Money
"You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school."
History
"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
Government
"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there."
Eisenhower
"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
Government
"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."
Nation
"My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier."
Favorite
"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
Friendship
"American corporations hate to give away money."
Money
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