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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander the Great

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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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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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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

John Doolittle

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I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror — and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.

Doc Hastings

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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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Sleep after Toil, Port after stormy Seas,
Ease after War, Death after Life, does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser

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

Sun Tzu

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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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The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

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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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