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" 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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Thomas Jefferson

" If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Quickness is the essence of the war. "

" 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. "

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" It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war. "

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

Winston Churchill

" 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? "

" A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. "

" It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. "

" Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. "

" The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war. "

" Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. "

" Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. "

" A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. "

" War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. "

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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. "

Walter Cronkite

" The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. "

Thomas Jefferson

" There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. "

Ernest Hemingway

" May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! "

" I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. "

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" Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. "

" The pictures are there, and you just take them. "

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Carl von Clausewitz

" If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima. "

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Lester B. Pearson

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

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