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"Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role"
Heinz Guderian, Soldier
"If we lose the war in the air, we lose the war, and we lose it quickly"
Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier
"What millions died that Caesar might be great!"
Thomas Campbell, Poet
"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all"
Bill Graham, Politician
"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"
Ngo Dinh Diem, Statesman
"I can make more generals, but horses cost money"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
"VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really"
Saadi, Poet
"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting"
George Orwell, Author
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"If we don't end war, war will end us"
H.G. Wells, Author
"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable"
Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
"When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition"
Wangari Maathai, Activist
"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men"
Cardinal Richelieu, Clergyman
"If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster"
Joseph Rotblat, Physicist
"The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst"
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman
"We've already seen how it's going to come in in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center"
Richard Drew, Photographer
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations"
Yasser Arafat, Leader
"If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present"
Claus von Stauffenberg, Soldier
"War hath no fury like a non-combatant"
Charles Edward Montague, Journalist
"It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward"
Dolores Ibarruri, Politician
"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed"
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way"
John Paul Jones, Soldier
"A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability"
Frank Whittle, Inventor
"Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information"
Roger Wicker, Politician
"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for"
Margaret Mitchell, Novelist
"Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition"
Robert M. La Follette, Politician
"But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices"
King Albert II, Royalty
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"In war there is no prize for runner-up"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
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