“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.”
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“Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.”
“Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.”
“I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.”
“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.”
“Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.”
“It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.”
“The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.”
“During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.”
“War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”
“Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.”
“My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.”
“I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.”
“I hope my own children never have to fight a war.”
“Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.”
“Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.”
“I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.”
“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.”
“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.”
“Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.”
“My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.”
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”