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“It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.”

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Book:Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”

Source: The Art of War

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.”

“What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'”

“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.”

“Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.”

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Book:Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

Source: Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

“You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.”

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Author:Francis Frangipane

“One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.”

Source: Roads from Past to Future

“The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others.”

“Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.”

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Author:Rennie Harris

“When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now”

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Author:Ed Harris

“Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.”

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Author:David Niven

“Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.”

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Author:Alexi Giannoulias

“Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.”

“George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.”

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Book:History of the Peloponnesian War

Source: History of the Peloponnesian War

“There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.”

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Book:War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

“When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.”

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Author:Marvin Hagler

“What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power - that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.”

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Author:Bill McCartney

“Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.”

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Book:Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849

Source: Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849

“What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?”

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Author:Ron Paul

“I think every teenager is a hero. When we are young we feel so much pain. Go to school is like going to war, people let you down all the time. Sometimes it's very, very difficult to stay strong, but you have to.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“A lot of people approach their barn or horse like they are going to war, because it's been going badly. So you pick up the next day in a defensive mode instead of cleaning the slate and starting fresh. Animals live so much in the moment, so if you're bringing baggage from yesterday you're already at a loss. We do that with people too.”

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Author:Cindy Meehl

“After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical equivalent of the 2 a.m. phone call ever parent dreads: 'Mom, I'm not saying I wrecked the car, but I need a ride home.'”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.”

“You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.”

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Author:Jed Babbin

“Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.”

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Author:Bob Barr

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