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War Quotes
"I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war."
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"We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay."
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"We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict."
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"We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began."
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"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over."
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"The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it."
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"And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration."
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"As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform."
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"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."
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"I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism."
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"Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups."
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"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
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"Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?"
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"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."
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"The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill."
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"I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution."
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"Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind."
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"This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner."
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"The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years."
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"They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war."
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"That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction."
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"In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations."
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"You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle."
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"If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then."
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"Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war."
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"There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense."
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"Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered."
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"The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal."
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