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"There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!"
"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again."
"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
"No singer would ever make a song about that battle. No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader's beloved books. No banners flew, no warhorns moaned, no great lord called his men about him to hear his final ringing words. They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet."
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"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
"The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names."
"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
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