War Quotes
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We're already in a trade war with China. The problem is we've not been fighting back. Trump, through tariffs, wants to call a truce.
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If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
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You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.
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Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
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The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.
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Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.
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The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
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Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.
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If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
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I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.
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The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.
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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
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'War Horse' is just an extraordinary being.
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While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
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The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
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The first, the very first; oh! noneCan feel again as they have done;In love, in war, in pride, in allThe planets of life's coronal,However beautiful or bright,-What can be like their first sweet light?
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
