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“The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.”

Ifs World Giving War Moving Force Months Seven Saddam Hussein Tanks Seven Months

Author:Ralph Peters

“Each and every day, Israel remains on the frontline along with the United States in the War on Terror and is nothing but an unabashed ally of pro-democratic and pro-American policy.”

War States United United States Policy Remains Democratic Terror Israel Allies War On Terror Frontline

Author:Reince Priebus

“Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.”

People Needs War Enemy Internals Dictatorship Start Wars

Author:Richard Perle

“The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.”

War Nations Accepting Citizens Fellows Terror Vulnerability Urges Multiculturalism War On Terror Lax

Book:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

“Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.”

War States Imagine Danger Demand Ideals Assuming International Dare Pennies Superfluous Armament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.”

People World Years War Courses Fun Force Air Building Seven Flying Flight Around The World Vietnam Airplane Testing Seven Years Vietnam War Garage Air Force

Author:Burt Rutan

“The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.”

Needs War America President Cutting Policy Taxes Spending Wealthy Destroying Fabric Reduction Tax Cuts

Author:Charles Rangel

“AS an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.”

“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.”

World War Ends Answers Support Willing Balance Favors War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Free Market Balance Of Power

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.”

Knows May War Home Injury Coming Home Veteran Ptsd Handful Bipolar Head Injuries

Author:David O. Russell

“You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.”

War Country Communication Hair Conflict Strikes Nuclear Locals Triggers Nuclear War Miscalculations

Author:Dennis A. Ross

“The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.”

War Prisoner Prisoner Of War

Author:Gideon Raff

“In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.”

People Thinking Two War America Order Next Citizens Posts Patriot Bin Laden Pretense Patriot Act Usa Patriot Act

Author:Gideon Raff

“Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.”

Humans War Reality Worry Nuclear Awake Cosmos Nightmare Nuclear War

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.”

People Way Doe War Political Nations Happened Easier Machines Vilify

Author:Alexander Siddig

“As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.”

Firsts War Hands Able Fronts Glasses Officers Vodka Cucumbers

Author:Asne Seierstad

“Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.”

Needs Humans War Use Political Moral Cutting Military Spending Human Needs Against War Military Spending

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.”

War America Political Leader Moral Class Streets Middle Policy Wall Greed Corporate Middle Class Destroying Elsewhere Billionaire Corporate Greed

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.”

Needs War Today Remember Fighting Behinds Enemy Gone Sacrifice Hatred Terror Flags Extremism War On Terror

Author:Bill Shuster

“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.”

People World Years Made War Effort Progress Mankind Prosperity Convinced Preserves War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Contributing Through The Years

Author:Eisaku Sato

“Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.”

People World Heart War Country Left Mark Determined Japan Bombing Renounce Atomic Bomb Indelible

Author:Eisaku Sato

“How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.”

Feels Wells War

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.”

People Want War Majority

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.”

People Looks War Whole Running Army Soldier Recruit Joining The Army

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.”

Looks Different War Hands Shots Including Journalist Damage Interviews Pot Combat Ads Unfair Petty Drones Afar Slick

Author:Greta Van Susteren

“Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.”

Stills War Ends States Individual Lost Loss Serious Germany Assets Territory Historian Participation Colonization Meaning Nothing

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.”

War Country Majors My Family Civil War

Author:Jack Scalia

“It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.”

World War Tools Jew War Of The Worlds World War I Wilson

Author:Julius Streicher

“What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.”

Different War America Principles Happened Independence Secession

Author:L. Neil Smith

“The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.”

War Country States Levels United United States Caught Prosperity Protection Accepted Recovery Posts Openness Caught Up Post War

Author:Lawrence Summers

“The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle.”

War Battle

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress.”

Ifs Knows Made War President Policy Republican Congress Statements Iran Foreign Policy Acceptable Approval Presidency Romney

Author:Rand Paul

“War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.”

War Political Imagination Absolutes American Woman

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.”

“In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities.”

Thinking World Want Ideas War Humanity Fighting Identity This World Buddhism Diversity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.”

World War Humanity Stage Planets Buddhism Evolution Destruction Majority Theme Dominant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.”

People Mind War States Humanity Planets Buddhism Destruction Ultimate Blow State Of Mind Preparing Nuclear War

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.”

People World War Self Humanity Practice Meditation Conditions Buddhism Activity Discovery Self Discovery War Of The Worlds Our World World War Ii World War I Cult Persecuted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”

World War Humanity Speak Social Poverty Violence Conditions Buddhism Stem Imbalance Social Conditions Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.”

War Evil Peace Mistake Victory Storm Tyranny Desert Operations Good Over Evil Desert Storm

Author:Dan Quayle

“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”

Men Way War Suffering Literature Violence Ready Disappear Persecution Abolish Abstention

Author:Anatole France

“I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.”

Writing War College Battle Offers Majors Civil War Gettysburg

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.”

Ifs War Law Failing Constitution Slavery Slave Operations Hereafter Fugitive

Author:Jay Sekulow

“People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.”

People Thinking Knows World Believe War Ends Beautiful Cities Car Areas War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Berlin Detroit Really Beautiful

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.”

People World War Force This World Planets Threatening Threatening Us

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.”

War Visible Troops

Author:Ron Suskind

“There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'”

War Film Struggle Directors Authority Communist War Movie

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.”

Should Believe War States Winning I Believe Military Noses Department Diplomacy

Author:Stuart Symington

“I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.”

Thinking Want War Taxes American Society Sad Things

Author:Zoe Saldana

“American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.”

Should War Three Boys Dying News Congress Resolution Invoke

Author:Evan Thomas

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