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“France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.”
— Charles de Gaulle
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“One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.”
— Douglas MacArthur
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“Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.”
— Ron Paul
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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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“The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.”
— Ted Nugent
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“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”
— Donald Trump
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“What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'”
— Ron Paul
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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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“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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“I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”
— Shel Silverstein
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“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.”
— Donald Rumsfeld
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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”
— Omar N. Bradley
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“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.”
— Charles Wilson
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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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“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
— Noam Chomsky
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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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“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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“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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“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 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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“Business is a combination of war and sport.”
— Andre Maurois
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“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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