951 private quotes tagged war

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“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.”— George S. Patton
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“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”— Plato
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“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.”— John F. Kennedy
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“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”— Albert Camus
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“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“If we don't end war, war will end us.”— H. G. Wells
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“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.”— Harry S. Truman
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”— Bertrand Russell
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“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”— Albert Einstein
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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”— Winston Churchill
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“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Morality is contraband in war.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”— Winston Churchill
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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.”— Samuel Butler
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“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”— Bertrand Russell
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“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”— John F. Kennedy
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“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”— George Orwell