War
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other — instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
We owe our World War II veterans — and all our veterans — a debt we can never fully repay.
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