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" You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. "

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" Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. "

Daryn Kagan

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" Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. "

" There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. "

" Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. "

" 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. "

Christopher Hitchens

" 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. "

" Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. "

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

" There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. "

" I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. "

" We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War. "

" I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. "

" Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. "

" War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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" This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. "

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

" When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick. "

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

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

" What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. "

" Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. "

" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "

" Sweat saves blood. "

" Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful. "

" The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. "

" There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. "

" 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. "