“If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.” IfsThinkingWorldWarLevelsSeaBuildingSouthChinaWar Of The WorldsWorld War INavyReducing Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world” ThinkingWorldWarMatterDiesFightingSidesPresidentStupidVicious Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war.” ThinkingDifferentWarFeelingsGroupsSoldierJust OneDifferent Feelings Author:Emily Robison
“No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.” PeopleThinkingWarDesireNextWonderfulWorstMankindMaterialsImportanceGreedPossessionEnvyHorribleAdvertisingViewpointsMenace Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.” ThinkingWorldGivingTryingMayWarEndsCountryLibertyGreaterRightsDangerReadyIdealsBillsLipsCivil RightsAmendmentsStirringCivil LibertiesBill Of RightsAvertLip Service Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.” PeopleIfsThinkingWarMightChanceMorningWake UpScaredBombsPreventingAtomic BombPreventing War Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFirstsLooksDifferentWarUseProblemGovernmentRunningViewsGroupsGoes OnConflictTaxesMethodInventionSuperiorsWarfareDifferent Views Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES