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" Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. "

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" It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. "

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

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" There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies oftentimes when they had no violent crimes. "

John Hickenlooper

" 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

" At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. "

" War is never a lasting solution for any problem. "

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" One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. "

" This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

" Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. "

" Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. "

" In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. "

" Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. "

" War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "

John Stuart Mill

" The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War. "

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" 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. "

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" The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. "

" I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can. "

" 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. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

" Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. "

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" 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

" In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. "

Neville Chamberlain

" The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. "

" I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. "

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