War Quotes
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We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.
Al Murray
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Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.
Vladimir Putin
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I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It really feels like a bunch of creative minds rather than some rap guys stamping their names on a sneaker. We're arguing over shoes, ideas, and everything - it's like a tug of war.
Terrence LeVarr Thornton
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Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.
Stephen J. Field
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No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
Kurt Vonnegut
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I tell you I look forward with terror to her Germany making war upon us again in ten years.
Austen Chamberlain
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The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
Nick Lampson
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America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.
Charles E. Stanton
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I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.
Andy Rooney
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I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.
Maureen Dowd
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I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.
John O'Neill
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Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.
Evo Morales
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
Suzanne Collins
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When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.
Joseph Heller
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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Holmes
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If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.
Carrie Snow
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If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well.
Cass Sunstein
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I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
Sharon Stone
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The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.
Elizabeth Samet
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War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.
Milton Berle
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Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
Vivien Leigh