“I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.”
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“Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.”
“The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.”
“We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.”
“I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.”
“War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.”
“Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.”
“Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.”
“War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.”
“Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.”
“The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.”
“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”
“In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.”
“Killing is the payoff of war.”
“So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.”
“After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.”
“That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.”
“We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.”
“I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.”
“And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.”
“The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!”
“You cannot be politically correct in a war.”
“I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.”
“We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.”