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" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war. "

" I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. "

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" World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. "

Richard Holbrooke

" Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? "

" The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. "

" Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. "

" 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

" 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

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" It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. "

" I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

" Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. "

Thomas Jefferson

" More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "

" 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

" The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. "

" War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. "

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John Paul Jones

" I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. "

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" Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. "

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" Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn't realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn't realize Truman had the nerve. "

" 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. "

" 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

" It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. "

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George Washington