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War Quotes
"Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries."
War,
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"I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war."
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"And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war."
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"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."
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"I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less."
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"It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security."
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"War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible."
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"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
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"Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course."
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"However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent."
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"Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction."
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"I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won."
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"Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented."
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"Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!"
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"If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it."
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"If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort."
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"The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families."
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"The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity."
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"Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war."
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"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts."
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"On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president."
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"Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war."
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"I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began."
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"War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition."
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"The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims."
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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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"What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war."
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"Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front."
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"I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone."
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"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."
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