War Quotes
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
John Boyd Orr
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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.
Yasser Arafat
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I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!
Sean Hannity
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It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.
Barack Obama
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A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
Frank Whittle
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In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Barack Obama has made things exponentially worse, but let's face it, when Republicans had total control over it, they didn't do what they said they were gonna do. I think also people got fatigued with the war. And the party got into a whole bunch of corruption and personal scandals that weren't compatible with the principles it claimed to stand for.
Tim Pawlenty
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The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.
William Slim
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President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.
David Petraeus
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The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
George Washington
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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
Arthur Henderson
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Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.
Esther Duflo
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Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
Edward Bernds
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Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.
Earl Hancock Ellis
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The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.
Daniel Mendelsohn
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To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.
Marcus Luttrell
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Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.
Efraim Zuroff
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When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
Doug Liman
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
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From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
Nguyen Cao Ky
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The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.
Ray Bradbury
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I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.
Buzz Aldrin
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Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.
Homer