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

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" It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war. "

Hillary Clinton

" Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. "

" 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. "

Michelle Malkin

" 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

" If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. "

" 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. "

" There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. "

" 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

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

" Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive. "

" What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. "

" It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. "

Thomas Jefferson

" It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. "

" War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. "

" It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war. "

" Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. "

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

" You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands. "

Arundhati Bhattacharya

" My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some very close Navy SEAL connections as well. "

" This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow? "

" 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. "

Winston Churchill

" Sweat saves blood. "

" 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

" As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. "

Lester B. Pearson

" 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. "

Ernest Hemingway

" I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?' "

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

" People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. "

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

Barry McCaffrey