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"Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Let us not be deceived, we are today in the midst of a cold war"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
"When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway"
Arundhati Roy, Novelist
"Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it"
Craig Bruce, Writer
"He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again"
Tacitus, Historian
"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict"
John Le Carre, Author
"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides"
Robert E. Lee, General
"Let the tent be struck"
Robert E. Lee, General
"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving"
Robert E. Lee, General
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons"
Herodotus, Historian
"But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20"
Mel Gibson, Actor
"The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute"
Robert Capa, Photographer
"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic"
A. J. P. Taylor, Historian
"There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one"
Joseph Rotblat, Physicist
"This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization"
Joseph Rotblat, Physicist
"The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions"
Joseph Rotblat, Physicist
"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men"
Georges Clemenceau, Leader
"If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back"
Ulysses S. Grant, President
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb"
Rene Magritte, Artist
"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war"
Konrad Lorenz, Scientist
"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace"
Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian
"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, Theologian
"There is no more Palestine. Finished"
Moshe Dayan, Soldier
"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war"
Moshe Dayan, Soldier
"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - At the Battle of Copenhagen"
Horatio Nelson, Soldier
"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better"
Horatio Nelson, Soldier
"Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men"
David Lloyd George, Statesman
"We are muddled into war"
David Lloyd George, Statesman
"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack"
Ferdinand Foch, Soldier
"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve"
Jerry Falwell, Clergyman
"Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare"
Heinz Guderian, Soldier
"You know what they should call this war - Son of Bush vs. Son of a Bitch"
Jay Leno, Comedian
"Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time"
Moshe Sharett, Statesman
"War is a profane thing"
Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier
"Our swords shall play the orators for us"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
"Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers"
Tecumseh, Leader
"Now, when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides"
Ferdowsi, Poet
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