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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
– General Robert E. Lee
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It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
– Voltaire
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It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.
– Rush Limbaugh
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
– Lester B. Pearson
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In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
– Neville Chamberlain
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
– General Douglas MacArthur
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In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.
– Steven Spielberg
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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
– Gene Tierney
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In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
– John le Carre
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
– Tony Blair
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In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
– Phyllis Schlafly
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
– Gen. Barry McCaffrey
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If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
– Cindy Sheehan
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If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
– Alveda King
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If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
– Arlen Specter
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
– H. G. Wells
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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.
– Craig Ferguson
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
– James Lovelock
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If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
– Dennis Prager
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
– James A. Garfield
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I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.
– Matthew Lesko
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I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
– Brad Pitt
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I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
– Larry Hagman
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
– Harry Browne
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I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
– John Wooden
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
– Gary Johnson
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I'm against all war.
– Puff Daddy
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I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.
– Nathan Fillion
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
– Haruki Murakami
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I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
– Richard Branson
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I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!
– Kinky Friedman
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I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
– George McGovern
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
– Rand Paul
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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
– Jefferson Davis
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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
– John le Carre
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I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
– Shel Silverstein
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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
– Robert Walpole
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
– George McGovern
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
– Julia Child
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I was drafted during the Korean War.
– Clint Eastwood
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
– Harold Pinter
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
– Mel Brooks
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
– Doris Lessing
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I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
– Nicolas Sarkozy
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I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.
– Gary Numan
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
– Walter Mosley
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I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.
– Jane Fonda
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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
– George McGovern
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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
– Antonia Fraser
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
– Werner Herzog
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I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
– John Bolton
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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
– Jane Smiley
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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
– Harold Pinter
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I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.
– Talib Kweli
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I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.
– Craig Ferguson
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I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
– Rand Paul
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
– Maya Lin
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I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
– Madeleine Albright
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
– Chief Joseph
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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
– Chief Joseph
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I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
– Chief Joseph
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I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
– Gene Tierney
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I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
– John Cusack
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I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.
– Claude Chabrol
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
– Paul Wolfowitz
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I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
– Ringo Starr
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I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
– Diane Kruger
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I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
– Christopher Hitchens
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I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
– Steven Spielberg
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
– Thomas Jefferson
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I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.
– George Galloway
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
– Bianca Jagger
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
– Will Rogers
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I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
– Ryan Gosling
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
– Jimmy Carter
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
– Ben Barnes
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
– Karl Lagerfeld
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
– Dan Rather
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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
– Lily Tomlin
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I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.
– Diane Kruger
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I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.
– Patty Hearst
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
– Harry Browne
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
– Fidel Castro
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I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
– Sharon Stone
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
– Nathan Bedford Forrest
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I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
– Christopher Hitchens
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
– King Abdullah II
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
– Barack Obama
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I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
– Neil Young
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I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.
– Kevin Costner
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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
– William Westmoreland
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