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"The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism"
A. J. P. Taylor, Historian
"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914"
A. J. P. Taylor, Historian
"It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one"
Robert Capa, Photographer
"I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture"
Robert Capa, Photographer
"America can't beat anyone anymore"
George Clooney, Actor
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases"
Andre Malraux, Author
"The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings"
Denis Diderot, Editor
"But scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War"
Joseph Rotblat, Physicist
"The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble"
Joseph Rotblat, Physicist
"My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war"
Georges Clemenceau, Leader
"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory"
Georges Clemenceau, Leader
"A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. An all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him"
Gerald R. Ford, President
"No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works"
Ulysses S. Grant, President
"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"
Ulysses S. Grant, President
"Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food"
Alexandra Paul, Actress
"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind, caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country"
Raymond Chandler, Writer
"Wars are made to make debt"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation!"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"The cause of our difficulties in Southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence"
Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman
"We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent"
Elie Wiesel, Novelist
"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense"
Sallust, Historian
"I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it"
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman
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