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" If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. "

Barry McCaffrey

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" 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. "

John C. Calhoun

" Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. "

" Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. "

" Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. "

Douglas MacArthur

" There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency. "

Richard Phillips

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

" 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. "

" When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. "

" I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time? "

" Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of force, and a certain and considerable price to be paid if the status quo is allowed to stand. Examples include World War II and the Korean War. "

Richard N. Haass

" 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. "

Arthur L. Herman

" I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. "

Steven Spielberg

" I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint. "

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

" This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. "

" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "

George McGovern

" 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. "

" The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law. "

Andrew Rosenthal

" One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. "

" The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. "

Van Wyck Brooks

" In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. "

Neville Chamberlain

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

" 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. "

" Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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. "