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We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
– Barack Obama
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We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
– Margaret Cho
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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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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
– Kevin Costner
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We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
– Doc Hastings
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We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
– Joni Mitchell
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We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
– will.i.am
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
– Black Kettle
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We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
– Joni Mitchell
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We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
– Chief Joseph
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We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
– James P. Hoffa
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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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We are not at war against Islam.
– Barack Obama
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We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.
– Dennis Chavez
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.
– Conrad Black
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War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
– Margaret Sanger
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
– Paul Valery
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
– Anatole France
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
– Sophocles
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War is what happens when language fails.
– Margaret Atwood
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War itself is the enemy of the human race.
– Howard Zinn
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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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War is the trade of Kings.
– John Dryden
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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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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War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
– Marvin Gaye
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War is over if you want it.
– Yoko Ono
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
– Karl Von Clausewitz
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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War is not civilized.
– Talib Kweli
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
– Karl Von Clausewitz
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
– Gertrude Stein
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War is at its best barbarism.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
– Curt Schilling
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War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
– Gilbert Parker
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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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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
– Thomas Jefferson
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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
– Thomas Paine
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War is a profane thing.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
– Andrew Jackson
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War is a contagion.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
– Bertrand Russell
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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
– Alice Walker
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
– James Madison
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War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
– Michael Morpurgo
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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
– Chief Joseph
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
– Noam Chomsky
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
– Henry A. Wallace
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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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Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
– Sarah Palin
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To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.
– Elihu Root
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Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
– Carroll Quigley
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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
– Ron Paul
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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This war is not about slavery.
– General Robert E. Lee
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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
– James Lovelock
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This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
– Jack Nicklaus
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This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
– Ron Paul
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These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
– Julie Burchill
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There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
– Ron Paul
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There's no question that jihad historically means war.
– Pat Robertson
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There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
– Jimmy Carter
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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
– Pat Robertson
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There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
– Martin Scorsese
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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
– Amelia Earhart
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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
– George Wald
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
– Miguel de Cervantes
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
– George McGovern
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There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
– Bianca Jagger
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
– Will Durant
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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
– Sun Tzu
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There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.
– Joel Silver
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
– Christopher Hitchens
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
– Barack Obama
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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 whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!
– Rupert Everett
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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
– James Buchan
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The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
– Hamid Karzai
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
– Imran Khan
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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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The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
– William Hague
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The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
– Will Rogers
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
– Barack Obama
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The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
– John Podhoretz
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The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
– Conan O'Brien
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The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
– Madeleine Albright
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The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
– Gus Van Sant
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