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" I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war. "

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" Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. "

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" The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. "

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" What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. "

" The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. "

" In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. "

" Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. "

" You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. "

" Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. "

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" The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. "

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" The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. "

" People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times. "

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" 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war. "

" 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. "

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" All warfare is based on deception. "

" Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to. "

William Golding

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" I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. "

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" If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. "

Ulysses S. Grant

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

" The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't. "

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