War Quotes
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Media coverage both shapes and reflects public opinion. The press coverage in the run-up to the war was very pro-war and the country was very pro-war.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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We should provide in peace what we need in war.
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Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
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In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
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You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
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The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.
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In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
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The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
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There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.
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For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.
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Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.
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From time immemorial war has always caused widespread displacements of population. Driven abroad by the destruction of their homes, fleeing from the neighbourhood of the battlefields or from the threat of enemy occupation, floods of refugees have always taken to the roads in search of a haven which is never easy to find.
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Those who prepare for war get it.
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When diplomacy ends, War begins.
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
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The Elian events were shocking to Cubans because we were the fair-haired boys of the Cold War. The problem is, the Cold War ended.
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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.
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Leave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.
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Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
