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War Quotes
"I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not."
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"For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side."
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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
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"I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?"
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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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"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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"When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them."
War,
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"Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon."
War,
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"We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq."
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"The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it."
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"After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution."
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"Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war."
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"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
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"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly."
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"Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism."
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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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"We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional."
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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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"What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line."
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"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."
War,
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"Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea."
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"On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold."
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"This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous."
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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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"There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign."
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"We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course."
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"The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years."
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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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"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."
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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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"The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon."
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"But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived."
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