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“In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.”

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Author:James M Strock

“Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting a way of life that they sometimes come back to and it's not close to them.”

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Author:Linda Cardellini

“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”

“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.”

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Author:Matthew Lesko

“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”

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Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.”

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Book:No Easy Walk to Freedom

Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom

“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

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Author:Thomas Mann

“My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.”

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Author:Jon Meacham

“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”

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Author:Clara Barton

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

“Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.”

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Author:John Milton

“War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”

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Author:Benito Mussolini

“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”

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Author:Benito Mussolini

“One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.”

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Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.”

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Author:Solomon Ortiz

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”

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Author:George Orwell

“They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.”

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Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”

“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.”

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Book:My American Journey

Source: My American Journey

“Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

“Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

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