"Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war."

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"I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War."

Larry David, American Actor

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"That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."

Marvin Olasky, American Educator

War, Advice, Kids, Months

"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."

Tony Greig, South African Athlete

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"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."

Arthur Henderson, British Politician

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"Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war."

Jan Schakowsky, American Politician

War, Democrats, Fact, Voting

"I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

War, Peace, Humanity, Conflict

"War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable."

Dennis Weaver, American Actor

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"After every war someone has to tidy up."

Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Poet

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"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable."

Pamela Hansford Johnson, English Critic

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"I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War."

"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."

"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."

"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."

"Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war."

"War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable."

"After every war someone has to tidy up."

"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable."

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"A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth."

"Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father."

"So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training."

"To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged."

"The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last."

"Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war."