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“I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.”

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Curtis LeMay was a prominent military commander during World War II and the Korean War, known for his role in the strategic bombing campaign against Japan and his leadership of the United States Air Force. more

“...And while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.”

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Author:Dick Cheney

“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”

“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”

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Author:Eugene V. Debs

“...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.”

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Book:Emma Goldman

Source: Emma Goldman

“The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.”

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Author:William Cobbett

“My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.”

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Author:Alfred Nobel

“However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that.”

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Author:Neville Chamberlain

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