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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells

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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Thomas Hobbes

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

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Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Christian Lous Lange

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I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

Bob Feller

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The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

Eduardo Galeano

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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

Malala Yousafzai

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The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

Noam Chomsky

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According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.

John Doolittle

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If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Sun Tzu

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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

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Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

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Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

Winston Churchill

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The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war — diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power — and we are developing new tools as we go along.

Richard Armitage

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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Thucydides

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

H. L. Mencken

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The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history — on our behalf.

Nigel Hamilton

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