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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.
We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.
I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.
Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.
Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.
The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.
....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.
If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.
Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.
Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.