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War Quotes
"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
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"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
76
"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."
74
"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."
72
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
71
"War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven."
70
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
70
"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
65
"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism."
64
"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
64
"We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war."
62
"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them."
62
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
60
"Europe cannot survive another world war."
59
"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."
58
"From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor."
56
"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
56
"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."
55
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
54
"I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war."
52
"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."
51
"The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control."
50
"Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope."
50
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
49
"If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present."
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