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War Quotes
"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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"The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong."
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"Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects."
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"We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them."
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"The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain."
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"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."
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"The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war."
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"At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire."
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"Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war."
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"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
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"The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people."
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"War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality."
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"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
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"When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands."
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"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation."
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"The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment."
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"American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's."
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"The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community."
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"Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it."
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"After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958."
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"Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war."
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"Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels."
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"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war."
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"I guess that makes everyone in boots on the ground a murderer."
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"There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly."
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"The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq."
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"I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam."
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"In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons."
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"When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants."
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"The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war."
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
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"Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously."
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"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."
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