“There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.”
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“The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.”
“The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.”
“The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.”
“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.”
“We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.”
“War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.”
“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.”
“I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.”
“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
“It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.”
“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”
“The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”
“There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.”
“War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.”
“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.”
“War is a profane thing.”
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.”
“I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.”
“As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.”
“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”