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" There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with. "
Colin Powell
War
Because
Going
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" Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Persian Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked. "
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" War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. "
George Orwell
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" Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war. "
Monica Crowley
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End
" We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house. "
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" I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. "
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" War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. "
Leo Tolstoy
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" In war there is no substitute for victory. "
Douglas MacArthur
Victory
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" Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. "
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Economy
Moving
Unemployment
" War is never a lasting solution for any problem. "
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Solution
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Any
" It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military. "
Colin Powell
Say
Always
Support
" Quickness is the essence of the war. "
Sun Tzu
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Essence
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" War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. "
John McCain
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Fraud
Beyond
" Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. "
Colin Powell
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Tough
Stuff
" I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. "
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Attitude
Leader
" 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. "
Michelle Malkin
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World
Evil
" There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. "
Charles Lindbergh
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Defeat
Preparation
" War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose. "
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Fight
Black And White
Black
" My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners. "
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Two
Honorable
Goodness
" What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. "
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Think
You
" 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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" 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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" Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. "
Thomas Hobbes
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Two
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" It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war. "
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" You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. "
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Power
You
" The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong. "
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Looking
Army
" The war on drugs is a war against the communities. "
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Against
" 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
Us
Why
War
" This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. "
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" The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. "
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