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“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.”

Long War Jobs America Left Term Taxes Office Percent Gains Rate Long Term Elders Capital Gains

Author:Andrew Tobias

“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.”

War Kids Mother Father Literature Games Taught Ten Lays Ancient Bridges Rome Eleven English Literature Pedestrians Ancient Rome War Games

Author:Bernie Taupin

“Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.”

Ifs Ideas War Hands Today Pain Violence Brother Normal Weapons Conscience Destruction Raises Fallen Justify Violence And War Pain Death

Book:Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

“The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.”

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Author:David Talbot

“As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.”

Needs Years Has Beens War Past Nations Powerful Cold Depth Seven Collections Capability Cold War Seven Years Expertise Over The Past Satellites Rebuilding Clandestine

Author:George Tenet

“Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.”

Important War Jobs Energy Security Source Weapons South Investing Terror Oil Producers Dependence War On Terror New Job Dakota South Dakota Ethanol Energy Security

Author:John Thune

“Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.”

Trying Believe War Today Citizens Conflict Tasks Treats Terrorist Who We Are

Author:Todd Tiahrt

“More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.”

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Author:Carol Vorderman

“Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.”

War Danger Combination Cork

Author:Eamon de Valera

“Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.”

People Has Beens War Suffering Millions Gone Involved Spokes Sympathy Limerick Fortnight

Author:Eamon de Valera

“We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.”

World War Courses Ready Regard

Author:Eamon de Valera

“I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.”

Ifs May War Praying Iraq Back To Work

Author:Elizabeth Vargas

“My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.”

Firsts War Actors Speak Hollywood Opposition Vietnam Vietnam War Speaks Out

Author:Robert Vaughn

“I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.”

Thinking Humans War Species Artificial Intelligence Artificial Human Species

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.”

Ifs War Happens

Author:Dar Williams

“I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.”

World War Pain Stress Hunger Strife Cool Places

Author:Dionne Warwick

“The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.”

War Approach

Author:Greg Walden

“American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.”

War Grows Commitment Terrorism Farmers Corn Spears Ethanol

Author:R. James Woolsey, Jr.

“Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.”

War Hard Stories Sides Voice Air Iraq Protest Antiwar Dissent Covering Cnn

Author:Jim C. Walton

“I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.”

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Author:Sanford I. Weill

“Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions.”

“It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.”

War Asking Terrorist Limitation Make Sense Strict Geneva

Author:John Yoo

“While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.”

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Author:John Yoo

“We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.”

War States Dangerous Theater Affair Soldier Abu Ghraib

Author:John Yoo

“A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.”

War Easy Deals Schizophrenic Easy Things

Author:Andrew Niccol

“It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.”

War Hard Home Forget Repeats Warfare Tanks Drones Remote Control

Author:Andrew Niccol

“It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.”

War Hard States Helping United Roles United States Support Air Arms Strategy Train Iraq Syria

Author:David Ignatius

“You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict”

People World Looks War States Dying Arms Conflict War Of The Worlds Civil War Vietnam World War Ii World War I People Dying

Author:Juan Williams

“As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.”

May Has Beens War Today Left President Thanks Historian Now And Then Recalls Korean Surveys Terminology Truman Korean War

Author:Thomas Frank

“The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement”

Should War Turns Democracy Movement Anti War Anti War Movement

Author:Naomi Klein

“We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.”

War Self Battle One Day Discovery Self Discovery Hinduism Incarnation One Day At A Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.”

Men War Body Eye Cold March Antiwar

Author:Edmund Vance Cooke

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to the incinerators, those who possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons plan to take these weapons - these portable incinerators - to the victims.”

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Author:David Krieger

“Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.”

Men Believe War Hands Certain Sides Issues Peaceful Disputes Sincerely

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!”

Way War Moving Life Is Sorrow Summer Spring Devil Angel Perseverance Storm Firm Highways Sorrow And Happiness

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.”

World Book War Kids Age Today Remember Father My Own Gone Army Compare War Of The Worlds Officers Catastrophe Grandchildren Bombarded Bombarded By Army Officers

Author:Lois Lowry

“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”

War Artist Individual Lost Modern Approach Definitions Acknowledgement Individual Life

Author:Maya Lin

“If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.”

People Ifs Thinking Ideas War Honor Ethics Down And Code Good Ideas Pins Code Of Ethics

Author:Mercedes Lackey

“The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.”

“The history of mankind is a history of war.”

War Mankind

Author:Mike Love

“The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.”

War Fighting Terror War On Terror

Author:Nick Lampson

“When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.”

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Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.”

War Liberty Rights Protect Constitution Bills Careful All Time Founders Bill Of Rights

Author:Al Franken

“Being a single woman is like going off to war.”

War Single Women

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.”

War Huge Grew Grew Up South Civil War American History

Author:Anson Mount

“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.”

World Children War Hate Culture Violence One Thing Taught Grew Mets Grew Up Ignorant Former Taliban Outside World

Author:Greg Mortenson

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