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John Curtin

"If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory."

John Curtin, Australian Statesman
War, Victory, Enemy, First
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"If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory."

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

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