- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
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- Decadent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020