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

Van Wyck Brooks

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Van Wyck Brooks

" 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

" The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. "

" The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war. "

" Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. "

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

George Santayana

" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "

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

" A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. "

" Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. "

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

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

" There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level. "

Kailash Satyarthi

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

Ludwig von Mises

" I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" 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. "

" War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. "

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" 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

" I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it. "

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" 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

" Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. "

" Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not. "