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" 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. "

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" War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "

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" Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. "

" War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose. "

" War is a defeat for humanity. "

" The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law. "

" In war there is no substitute for victory. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. "

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

" I have not yet begun to fight! "

" A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. "

" War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. "

" I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap. "

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

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" 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. "

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