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

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" The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media. "

" 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

" My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line. "

" 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 no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. "

Jeannette Rankin

" Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "

" 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. "

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

Arundhati Bhattacharya

" War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "

John Stuart Mill

" Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations. "

" The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same. "

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

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

Otto von Bismarck

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. "

Charles Lindbergh

" Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war. "

" As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. "

Charles B. Rangel

" No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. "

Sebastian Junger

" A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. "

Winston Churchill

" Montserrat is a very pleasant place to do nothing. The islanders know this, and they know this is why tourists go there, but they are not totally comfortable with the notion. "

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

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Lester B. Pearson

" I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist. "

" In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. "

" War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. "

George Washington

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" 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. "

" Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy? "