“When there's a war, people get married.”
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“I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.”
“Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.”
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.”
“Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.”
“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.”
“We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.”
“And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.”
“Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.”
“Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.”
“I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.”
“When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.”
“Accursed be he that first invented war.”
“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
“I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.”
“Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.”
“Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”
“As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.”
“Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.”
“These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.”
“Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.”
“But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.”
“The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.”