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" People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. "

Otto von Bismarck

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Otto von Bismarck

" If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima. "

J. Robert Oppenheimer

" 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. "

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

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

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

William Tecumseh Sherman

" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "

" The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. "

Ernest Hemingway

" It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

" 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

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

Neville Chamberlain

" Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women were involved in the Second World War, the Cold War, the civil rights movement. "

Margot Lee Shetterly

" An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. "

" 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

" We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors. "

" When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. "

Otto von Bismarck

" There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. "

Otto von Bismarck

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

Thomas Jefferson

" 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. "

" Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.' "

" There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. "

Charles Lindbergh

" War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" 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

" 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. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically. "

" The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. "

" War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. "

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