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War Quotes
"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."
War,
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"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
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"There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on."
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"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."
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"So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress."
44
"Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously."
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"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
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"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman."
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"The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department."
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"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."
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"Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries."
War,
44
"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."
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"It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour."
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"We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war."
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"A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations."
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"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
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"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,
43
"In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies."
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"We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do."
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"He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse."
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"We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict."
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