“It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.”
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“We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.”
“The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”
“The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.”
“If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.”
“The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.”
“War is over if you want it.”
“I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!”
“A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.”
“We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.”
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.”
“Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.”
“When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.”
“People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.”
“I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.”
“I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.”
“It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.”
“I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.”
“There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.”
“It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.”
“Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.”
“If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.”
“In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.”