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" If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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" The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes. "

" A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. "

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

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

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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. "

" The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. "

" This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. "

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" An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. "

" 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. "

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" Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. "

" We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. "

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" The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. "

" 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. "

" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "

" The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster. "

" In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. "

" This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. "

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

" Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. "

" During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. "

" No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. "

" An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. "

" Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. "

" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "

" Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. "

" Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. "

" I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. "

" 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. "