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War Quotes
"The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important."
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"War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers."
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"Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition."
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"As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case."
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"Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees."
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"Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw."
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"War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful necessity of war ought to be stern. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war and not a game. Otherwise, war is a favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous..."
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"When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes."
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"I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so."
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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
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"If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory."
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"I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake."
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"The world is as it used to be:
'All nations striving strong to make
Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters
They do no more for Christ’s sake
Than you who are helpless in such matters.'
That this is not the judgment-hour
For some of them’s a blessed thing,
For if it were they'd have to scour
Hell’s floor for so much threatening....
'Ha, ha. It will be warmer when
I blow the trumpet (if indeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need).'"
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"But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination."
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"We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for."
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"Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."
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"A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war."
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"It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq."
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"In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war."
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"Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did.Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?""Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?""Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me.""I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live."Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree."
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"Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen."
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"Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down."
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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
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"In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
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"All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind."
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"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
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