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War Quotes
"By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project."
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"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future."
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"The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war."
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"War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there."
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"But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were."
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"From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources."
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"Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war."
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"Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils."
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"War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it."
War,
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"I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France."
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"The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist."
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"I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them."
War,
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"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."
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"Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular."
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"This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention."
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"The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information."
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"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel."
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"Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency."
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"Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war."
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"Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan."
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"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."
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"While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice."
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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
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"More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam."
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"Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed."
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"What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line."
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"You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope."
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"We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight."
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"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."
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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."
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"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam."
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