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War Quotes
"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."
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"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
54
"War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven."
54
"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."
53
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
52
"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
48
"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
47
"We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war."
45
"Europe cannot survive another world war."
45
"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."
43
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
43
"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."
40
"The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it."
40
"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't."
39
"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism."
39
"Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments."
38
"Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier."
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"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."
36
"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
34
"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."
34
"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."
34
"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
34
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
34
"The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles."
33
"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other."
33
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
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