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War Quotes
"I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can."
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"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."
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"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism."
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"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other."
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"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
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"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
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"Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?"
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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
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"There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
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"There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty."
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"There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs."
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"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
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"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."
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