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" Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. "
Amity Shlaes
Forever
Just
War
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" There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. "
Sun Tzu
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" Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. "
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" Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. "
Lewis Thomas
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Television
" I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. "
P. D. James
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" War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. "
Winston Churchill
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Smile
You
" The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. "
Thomas Jefferson
Most
War
Seldom
" I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go. "
Keala Settle
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Day
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" The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War. "
Nikola Tesla
Year
Office
Important
" During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically. "
Ben Shapiro
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" Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. "
Barack Obama
" It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. "
Robert E. Lee
War
Grow
Terrible
" War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. "
Leo Tolstoy
War
Responsibility
Man
" It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. "
Chester W. Nimitz
Soil
War
Function
" Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of force, and a certain and considerable price to be paid if the status quo is allowed to stand. Examples include World War II and the Korean War. "
Richard N. Haass
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World
Price
" It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. "
Thomas Jefferson
House
Try
Place
" War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. "
Leo Tolstoy
Ugly
Conscience
Try
" 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
War
Night
Mad
" In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. "
Charles Lindbergh
Always
Truth Is
Truth
" There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. "
Charles Lindbergh
War
Defeat
Preparation
" Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. "
John Lennon
Deserve
Say
War
" The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. "
Kim Il-sung
Defeat
Hate
Important
" Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "
Thomas Hobbes
War
Two
Force
" Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. "
Bernie Sanders
Moral
America
War
" No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. "
Sebastian Junger
Job
Gun
Battle
" As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. "
John Stuart Mill
War
Charity
Good
" There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. "
Ernest Hemingway
Man
Care
Hunting
" Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance. "
Ron Chernow
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Black
War
" When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you. "
Ernest Hemingway
Know
Illusion
Great
" It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. "
Thomas Jefferson
Principle
World
Own