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" I have not yet begun to fight! "
John Paul Jones
War
Fight
Begun
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" We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War. "
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" It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America! "
John Paul Jones
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Never
Navy
" I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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" There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. "
Stephen Douglas
Sides
Man
War
" The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law. "
Andrew Rosenthal
War
Winning
Control
" Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. "
Howard Dean
Wrong
Day
Every
" We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. "
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Black
Me
" All warfare is based on deception. "
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Warfare
" I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it. "
Harrison Ford
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Strong
" Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. "
Vladimir Putin
War
Always
Cold
" It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. "
William Tecumseh Sherman
More
Cry
Blood
" Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. "
Jacques Chirac
Become
Face
War
" It is certainly for the interest of the service that a cordial interchange of civilities should subsist between superior and inferior officers, and therefore, it is bad policy in superiors to behave towards their inferiors indiscriminately, as though they were of a lower species. "
John Paul Jones
Bad
Superior
Service
" I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. "
John Paul Jones
Good
Peace
Life
" When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick. "
Jenna Morasca
You
War
Walk
" You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. "
Charles Lindbergh
Looking
World
Looking Back
" In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. "
Charles Lindbergh
Always
Truth Is
Truth
" We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "
Winston Churchill
Never
Fight
Surrender
" If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. "
Barry McCaffrey
War
Children
Down
" I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tired
War
Up
" America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean. "
John Paul Jones
Time
Age
Election
" It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. "
John Paul Jones
Nature
Risk
Will
" It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. "
Robert E. Lee
War
Good
Might
" I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. "
Walter Cronkite
Vietnam
Lost
Mistake
" Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. "
Carl von Clausewitz
Difficult
Very
War
" I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no. "
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Need
Know
Week
" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "
Steven Spielberg
Air Force
World
War
" Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. "
Daryn Kagan
War
World
Bad
" 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
America
You
Evil
" One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. "
Mark Kurlansky
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Vietnam War
Military