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" You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. "

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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

" 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. "

" My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some very close Navy SEAL connections as well. "

" Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. "

" 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. "

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

Charles Lindbergh

" War is a defeat for humanity. "

Pope John Paul II

" A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. "

" 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. "

Andrew Rosenthal

" There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors. "

Stephen Douglas

" Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. "

" 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

" Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. "

Susan B. Anthony

" The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster. "

John C. Calhoun

" The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. "

" I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. "

" 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

" Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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. "

Stephen Hawking

" I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist. "

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

" Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. "

" We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it. "

Glennon Doyle Melton

" We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "

Winston Churchill

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

" All oppression creates a state of war. "

Simone de Beauvoir

" Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn't realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn't realize Truman had the nerve. "

" I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. "

" Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? "