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" The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War. "

Jeannette Rankin

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. "

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" 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. "

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" War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. "

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" 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. "

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" War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. "

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" I have nothing left but my integrity. "

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" 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. "

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