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" My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners. "

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" I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies oftentimes when they had no violent crimes. "

" We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "

" I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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" War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. "

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

" 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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" One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. "

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

" You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed. "

" Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. "

" 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. "

" All warfare is based on deception. "

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

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" 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. "

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

Richard Burton

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

" As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. "

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

" In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate. "

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

" War is never a lasting solution for any problem. "

" 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. "

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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" It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. "

" The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. "

" War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. "

" And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time. "

" 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. "