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" Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance. "

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" 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

" When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you. "

Ernest Hemingway

" It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. "

" I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. "

Walter Cronkite

" I have not yet begun to fight! "

John Paul Jones

" Only the dead have seen the end of the war. "

George Santayana

" 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. "

" I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out. "

" The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. "

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

Charles Lindbergh

" Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. "

" If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals. "

" The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. "

" I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons. "

" 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. "

John Hickenlooper

" I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification. "

" Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. "

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

Otto von Bismarck

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

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

Ulysses S. Grant

" 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

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. "

Susan B. Anthony

" 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war. "

" 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

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

" 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

" There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. "

Ernest Hemingway

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

Feisal Abdul Rauf

" The war on drugs is a war against the communities. "