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George Wald

"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated."

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"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated."

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"We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac."

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"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

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"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

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"During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front."

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"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want."

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"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

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"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

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"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

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"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."
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"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."
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"I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack."
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"The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life."
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"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."
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