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All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.
Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.
We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.
In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.
Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.
Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.
The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.
We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.
I haven't been to too many cons since Star Wars, and I don't think it's really going to change until it comes out.
I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.
We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.
Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.