War Quotes
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
Tacitus
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What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.
Charles Dickens
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
George McGovern
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
John Salazar
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He who owns a veteran bur oak owns more than a tree. He owns a historical library, and a reserved seat in the theater of evolution. To the discerning eye, his farm is labeled with the badge and symbol of the prairie war.
Aldo Leopold
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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
Bret Stephens
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust
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No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
Zelda Popkin
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We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
Hassan Nasrallah
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.
H. W. Brands
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The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.
Karl Marx
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
Victor Mitchell
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
Xavier Becerra
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
Indira Gandhi
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
Imelda Staunton
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War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.
Anna Louise Strong
