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War Quotes
"War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants."
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"It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq."
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"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."
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"Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war."
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"The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?"
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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."
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"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."
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"First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot."
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"At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire."
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"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
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"The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy."
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"And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war."
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"Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war."
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"In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead."
War,
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"To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism."
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"And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe."
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"I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win."
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"The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea."
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"The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community."
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"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."
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"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over."
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"Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?"
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"I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness."
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"The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it."
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"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
War,
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"If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place."
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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 would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."
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"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
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"Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess."
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"For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations."
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"If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero."
War,
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"That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together."
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