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“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
— William Westmoreland
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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
— Havelock Ellis
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“Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.”
— Mick Jagger
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“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
— Barbara Tuchman
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“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.”
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.”
— Donald Rumsfeld
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“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”
— William Burroughs
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“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
— Jeannette Rankin
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“Sweat saves blood.”
— Erwin Rommel
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“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
— Umberto Eco
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“Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.”
— Joe Baca
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“I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.”
— Zoe Saldana
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“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”
— Pope Benedict XVI
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“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.”
— R. Lee Ermey
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“It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.”
— Vanessa Kerry
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“I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.”
— Christopher Meloni
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“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
— Noam Chomsky
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“I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.”
— Douglas MacArthur
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“All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.”
— Jim Ramstad
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“If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?”
— Joan Baez
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“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.”
— Condoleezza Rice
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“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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“There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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