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War Quotes
"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
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"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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"War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there."
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"The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War."
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"We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional."
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"If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former."
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"No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is."
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"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."
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"The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces."
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"Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance."
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"The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again."
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"Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency."
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"As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else."
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"The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks."
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"The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear."
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"I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere."
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"While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice."
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"Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed."
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"I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments."
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"I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally."
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"How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it."
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"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
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"War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings."
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"It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war."
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"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."
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"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."
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"The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not."
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"No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war."
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"As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed."
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"No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence."
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"The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later."
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"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."
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