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War Quotes
"For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war."
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"This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002."
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"I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of."
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"After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958."
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"Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob."
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"Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest."
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"I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war."
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"No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works."
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"The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the last port of call. The experts said it was the most powerful hand weapon in the known universe. He choked. That would soon be put to the test!"
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"If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war."
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"There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction."
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"German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors."
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"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
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"To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."
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"And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war."
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"It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared."
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"On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration."
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"We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war."
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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."
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"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
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"After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really."
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"I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die."
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"One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly."
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"First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights."
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"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
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"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
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"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
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"In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it."
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"If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on."
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