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" As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. "

Charles B. Rangel

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" War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. "

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" I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. "

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" You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed. "

" 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. "

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" May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! "

" Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. "

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" It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war. "

" The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. "

" If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima. "

J. Robert Oppenheimer

" 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. "

" A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. "

Charles B. Rangel

" I have not yet begun to fight! "

John Paul Jones

" We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house. "

Stephen Hawking

" Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all. "

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" I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. "

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" Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits. "

" No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws. "

Charles B. Rangel

" 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. "

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" A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. "

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" I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out. "