“When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.”
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“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
“The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.”
“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.”
“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.”
“There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
“It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”
“John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
“War is a defeat for humanity.”
“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”
“One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.”
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”
“War is hell.”
“Sweat saves blood.”
“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”
“The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.”
“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
“To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.”