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For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.
The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.
Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I’m asking, is there any place you don’t want to intervene in?
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined.
A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.
Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.
Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days.
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.