Ahad Ha'am Quotes
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
Quotes to Explore
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
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We cannot escape the prospect of nuclear war unless we all commit to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and pursuing a world without them.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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Within the context of life, I am the centrist pragmatist who doesn't even vote; within the context of sports, I am a potential war criminal.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult-to begin a war and to end it.
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The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.
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America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
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[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.
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Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
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Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That list grows and changes as I do more and more research. But when I've answered the bulk of the questions, I begin to write.
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War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.
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We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
