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War Quotes

"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

Smedley Butler, American Soldier

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"An army marches on its stomach."

"An army marches on its stomach."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

George S. Patton, American Soldier

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"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."

"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian Politician

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"The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents."

"The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents."

Christopher Shays, American Politician

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"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail."

"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail."

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French Politician

War, People, Detail, World

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"Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq."

"Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq."

Ernest Istook, American Politician

War, People, Beliefs, Rights

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"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."

"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

War, People, Feeling

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"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."

"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."

Jean Giraudoux, French Dramatist

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"My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is."

"My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is."

Thom Yorke, English Musician

War, Kids, Songs, Sound

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"Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal."

"Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal."

Curtis Lemay, American Soldier

War, Time, Killing

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"With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that."

"With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that."

David McCullough, American Historian

War, Europe, Right, Satisfaction

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"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies."

"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies."

John Lothrop Motley, American Historian

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"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."

"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

War, Strategy, Enemy, Importance

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"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

War, Living, World, World war

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"People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there."

"People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there."

Jimmy Connors, American Athlete

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"War is a perversion of sex."

"War is a perversion of sex."

Alan Moore, British Writer

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"World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us."

"World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us."

Graham Chapman, British Comedian

War, People, Bombs, Germany

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"If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war."

"If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war."

Ernie Pyle, American Journalist

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"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."

"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."

Martin Luther, German Leader

War, Religion, Humanity, States

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"I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption."

"I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

War, Peace, Conflict, Violence

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"Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action."

"Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action."

Joe Bob Briggs, American Critic

War, Action, Fight

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"We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field."

"We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field."

Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator

War, Possibility, Day

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"When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years."

"When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years."

Carl Levin, American Politician

War, Intelligence, Decision, Months

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"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil."

"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil."

Robert Anton Wilson, American Writer

War, God, Evil, Goodness

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"As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack."

"As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack."

James Forrestal, American Public Servant

War, Survival, Victory

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"Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting."

"Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting."

Samuel Goldwyn, American Producer

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"Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world."

"Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world."

Rob Walton, Canadian Athlete

War, America, Now, Order

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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."

"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."

Stephen Douglas, American Politician

War, Man, Question, States

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"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."

"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."

Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist

War, Failure, Poor

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"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."

"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."

Demosthenes, Greek Statesman

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"We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight."

"We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight."

Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese Revolutionary

War, America, Fight, Rejection

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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

Michael Ignatieff, Canadian Politician

War, Control, Computer, Future

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"Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."

"Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."

William Kirby, English Scientist

War, History, Now

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"I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate."

"I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate."

David Cross, American Actor

War, Being, Vietnam

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"War hath no fury like a non-combatant."

"War hath no fury like a non-combatant."

Charles Edward Montague, English Journalist

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"I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it."

"I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it."

George Grosz, German Artist

War, People, Destruction, Horror

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"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."

Tony Blair, English Statesman

War, Possibility, Children, First

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"There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on."

"There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on."

Martha Gellhorn, American Journalist

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"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

War, Man, Weapons

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"War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves."

"War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves."

Rosanne Cash, American Musician

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"The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom."

"The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom."

George Pataki, American Politician

War, Morality, People, Defense

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"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

George Orwell, British Author

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"But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses."

"But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses."

Christopher Shays, American Politician

War, Cause, Causes, Illness

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"I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness."

"I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness."

Christopher Shays, American Politician

War, Cause, Illness

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"Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom."

"Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom."

Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian Lawyer

War, Freedom, Independence, State

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"If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague."

"If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague."

Wilhelm Keitel, German Celebrity

War, Strength, Future, Will

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"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."

"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

War, Fortune, Nothing

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"Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war."

"Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war."

William McKinley, American President

War, Peace, Conflict, Interest

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"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."

"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."

Thomas Aquinas, Italian Theologian

War, Authority, Cause, First

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