“I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.”
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“Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.”
“The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?”
“If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.”
“I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.”
“With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.”
“The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.”
“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.”
“So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.”
“After every war someone has to tidy up.”
“I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.”
“The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.”
“I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.”
“It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.”
“War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.”
“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.”
“World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.”
“One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.”
“World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.”
“I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.”
“Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?”
“Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.”
“When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.”
“For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.”