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"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle, and determined by the sword"
Andrew Jackson, President
"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"In war there is no substitute for victory"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy, bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift"
Denzel Washington, Actor
"War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war"
Anatole France, Novelist
"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy"
P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist
"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts, has its own laws"
Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary
"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one"
Henry Miller, Writer
"Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars"
Dale Carnegie, Writer
"War is a defeat for humanity"
Pope John Paul II, Clergyman
"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it"
Pope John Paul II, Clergyman
"Either war is obsolete, or men are"
R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
"War is the ultimate tool of politics"
R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920s and 1930s, when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"To die for one's country is such a worthy fate, that all compete for so beautiful a death"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell"
Thomas Merton, Author
"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"All reactionaries are paper tigers"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor"
Grover Cleveland, President
"On September 11, 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America"
George W. Bush, President
"The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war"
George W. Bush, President
"Bring them on"
George W. Bush, President
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people"
George W. Bush, President
"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children"
George W. Bush, President
"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers"
George W. Bush, President
"With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got!"
George W. Bush, President
"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive"
George W. Bush, President
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