War Quotes
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Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.
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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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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
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The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
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We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight.
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This is the war on terrorism; it's worth fighting for.
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When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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'Welcome to the GWOJ.' 'GWOJ?' 'Global War on Jones.'
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The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.
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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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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
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Foreigners assume that because of the war, the two sides must dislike each other more than West and East Germans did. The opposite is the case. Some of my students say, 'The North would never attack us, we’re the same people,' as if the war never happened. And North Korea would now be just as committed to unification if it hadn’t.
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
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These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.
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Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.
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War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.
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They were prepared physically and mentally for war. They’d all had at least nine lives, and had the burns, the dents, the bullet holes and the knife wounds to prove it.
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There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
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The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.
