War Quotes
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Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
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Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.
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Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
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I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.
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My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
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When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.
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Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
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On the Gulf War The ground war lasted 100 hours. A hundred fuckin' hours. I've had parties go on longer than that, folks!
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Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.
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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
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You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.
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War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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Some comments are within bounds, while some are not. But by whining about every little barb, candidates are trying to win the election through a war of staff resignation attrition, and Americans are losing the ability to distinguish between what is fair game and what is not.
