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My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.
There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.
To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.
History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
I'm a Star Wars fan from way back, and I love where the stories are going now.
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.
Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.
I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.
The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]
Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.
It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.
There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do
It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.