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“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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“Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”
— Karl Kraus
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“There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
— William Westmoreland
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“The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.”
— Henry A. Kissinger
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“War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
— Smedley Butler
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“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.”
— Douglas MacArthur
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“I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.”
— Jefferson Davis
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“The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”
— Adrienne Rich
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“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
— Mao Zedong
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“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
— George Santayana
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“I have not yet begun to fight!”
— John Paul Jones
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“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”
— Gilbert Parker
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“The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.”
— George W. Bush
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“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.”
— George C. Marshall
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“What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.”
— Simone Weil
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“With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.”
— George W. Bush
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“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
— Simone Weil
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“I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.”
— Chief Joseph
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“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
— Thomas Hobbes
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“A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.”
— Rita Rudner
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“Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.”
— Dan Savage
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“War would end if the dead could return.”
— Stanley Baldwin
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