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The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.
Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.
Football is a competition to see who's the best, not a battle. It's not a war. When it ends, we're still alive.
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.
There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.
It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.
I was four years old when I saw 'Star Wars,' and it has been significantly important throughout my entire life.
You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.
The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
I ain't shootin' nobody. So call me a faggot! When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs, thank you!
Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
Maybe the next three Star Wars movies will tell the story of how the last three Star Wars movies got so shitty.
For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
I'm just excited to be a part of the movie [Star Wars]. It's always the particulars that are the most exciting.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.