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" Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. "

John F. Kennedy

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" I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can. "

" The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. "

" Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. "

" War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. "

" The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. "

" I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. "

" Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. "

" But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. "

" A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. "

George S. Patton

" War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "

Bertrand Russell

" Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. "

John F. Kennedy

" War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "

John Stuart Mill

" Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. "

John F. Kennedy

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

Charles B. Rangel

" War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose. "

Marcus Luttrell

Black And White

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

Chiang Kai-shek

" Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. "

John F. Kennedy

" Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" 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. "

" Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. "

John F. Kennedy

" I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. "

John F. Kennedy

" A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. "

" Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. "

John F. Kennedy

" Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. "

" I'm an idealist without illusions. "

John F. Kennedy

" The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. "

John F. Kennedy

" 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. "

Michelle Malkin

" The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war. "

" 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

" In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. "

John F. Kennedy