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"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country"
Ronald Reagan, President
"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world"
Ronald Reagan, President
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap"
Ronald Reagan, President
"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"As our enemies have found, we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"
Victor Hugo, Author
"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"The only defensible war is a war of defense"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"Morality is contraband in war"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party?"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense, is new-one, which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"Don't forget what I discovered: that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
"In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won"
Duke of Wellington, Royalty
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor"
George Orwell, Author
"War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent"
George Orwell, Author
"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization"
George Orwell, Author
"There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction"
George Orwell, Author
"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there"
George Orwell, Author
"Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac"
George Orwell, Author
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