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War Quotes
"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means."
42
"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority."
42
"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."
41
"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
39
"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
34
"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."
War,
34
"We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction."
34
"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."
32
"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
32
"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."
31
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
31
"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."
30
"Europe cannot survive another world war."
29
"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."
28
"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism."
28
"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."
28
"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."
27
"During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization."
27
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
27
"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
27
"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other."
26
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
25
"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
24
"In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not."
War,
24
"You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas."
24
"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."
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