War Quotes
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
Aldous Huxley
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As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
Abraham Clark
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Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.
Natalie Maines
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I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.
Khalid
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The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Jeffrey Sachs
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Never go to war unless your willing to win.
John G. Schmitz
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
M. Stanton Evans
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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
Thom Yorke
Radiohead
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People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.
Gene Green
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
Patricia Riggen
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.
Matthew Heineman
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
Barry McCaffrey
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The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security.
Elliott Abrams
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The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.
Francois Mitterrand
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The gazing crowd, of glittering State afraid, Adore the Power their coward meanness made; In war's short intervals, while regal shows Still blind their reason and insult their woes.
Joel Barlow
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My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
Jim Yong Kim
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
B. B. King
