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" The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. "
Barack Obama
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" We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. "
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" We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender. "
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" To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. "
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" Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it. "
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" My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. "
George Washington
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" I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. "
Chelsea Clinton
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Loved
" There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. "
Reinhold Niebuhr
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War
Result
" The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. "
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" May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! "
Daniel Boone
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War
Her
" As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. "
Charles B. Rangel
War
Women
Know
" We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. "
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" The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. "
George Orwell
War
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Lose
" When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick. "
Jenna Morasca
You
War
Walk
" Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals. "
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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. "
Sebastian Junger
Job
Gun
Battle
" Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?' "
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" Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Sometimes
" Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not. "
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" Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. "
Robert M. La Follette
Party
Divine
War
" This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. "
Barack Obama
" Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. "
John Lennon
Deserve
Say
War
" Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. "
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" But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. "
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" The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. "
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" Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. "
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" I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time? "
Nadine Labaki
Thought
People
Possible
" All oppression creates a state of war. "
Simone de Beauvoir
War
State
Oppression
" Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. "
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" 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. "
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" There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America. "
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