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“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.”
— Rebecca West
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“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
— George Orwell
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“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”
— Winston Churchill
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“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.”
— John F. Kennedy
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“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
— Winston Churchill
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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.”
— Samuel Butler
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“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.”
— Ronald Reagan
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“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“Laws are silent in time of war.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”
— H. G. Wells
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“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
— Heraclitus
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“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.”
— Conrad Black
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“The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.”
— Arthur Henderson
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“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
— Tony Benn
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“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.”
— Nancy Pelosi
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“War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.”
— Jane Goodall
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“War remains the decisive human failure.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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“The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.”
— Lech Walesa
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“Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.”
— Haruki Murakami
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“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.”
— Rand Paul
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