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

Charles Lindbergh

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" The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. "

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Charles Lindbergh

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

" 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. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "

" I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. "

Shel Silverstein

" 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

" As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform. "

Charles B. Rangel

" The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. "

Charles Lindbergh

" War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. "

George Washington

" Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car. "

Charles Lindbergh

" But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. "

" It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down. "

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" There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. "

John F. Kennedy

" One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. "

George H. W. Bush

" 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. "

" Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. "

" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "

" 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. "

" An army marches on its stomach. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" 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

" You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. "

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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. "

Henry Kissinger

" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "