“For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.”
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“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”
“This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”
“I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.”
“First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.”
“Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.”
“I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.”
“France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.”
“I am against all war.”
“I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.”
“Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.”
“So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.”
“War is at its best barbarism.”
“I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.”
“I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.”
“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”
“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
“There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.”
“I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.”
“The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.”
“The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.”
“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
“There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.”
“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”