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War Quotes
"I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not."
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"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."
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"For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled."
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"The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war."
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"After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz."
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
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"Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits."
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"The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand."
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"War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary."
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"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."
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"I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War."
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"There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are."
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"The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences."
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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
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"General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career."
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"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."
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"This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops."
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"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."
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"Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world."
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"It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election."
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"But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War."
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"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
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"Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity."
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"Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary."
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"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation."
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"We are a nation at war - and we should act like it."
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"If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over."
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"This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war."
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"I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century."
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"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."
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