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“My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.”— Eric Liu
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“It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.”— Dick Cheney
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“World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.”— Herman Kahn
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“For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.”— Barbara Boxer
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“So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.”— Walter Bagehot
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“Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.”— Ellen Key
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“When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.”— Cindy Sheehan
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“Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?”— Oriana Fallaci
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“I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.”— Gary Numan
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“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.”— Neville Chamberlain
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“I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.”— Jane Smiley
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“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.”— Michael Moore
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“The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.”— Thomas Friedman
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“War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.”— Dennis Kucinich
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“What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.”— L. Neil Smith
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“I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.”— Harry Browne
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“It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.”— Chris Kyle
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“World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.”— Stephen Ambrose
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“The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.”— L. Neil Smith
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“We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.”— Paul Wolfowitz
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“People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.”— John Bolton
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“We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.”— William Westmoreland
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“You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.”— Dougray Scott
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“I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.”— Paul Wolfowitz
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“For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.”— Robert Capa