“I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.”
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“On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.”
“War is like love it always finds a way.”
“War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.”
“To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.”
“You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.”
“We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.”
“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”
“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.”
“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”
“No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.”
“War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.”
“Accurst be he that first invented war.”
“Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.”
“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
“Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.”
“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”
“War is what happens when language fails.”
“The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.”
“The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.”
“Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.”
“And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.”
“War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”
“My father was in the First World War.”