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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
- Nations
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, a Vietnam War pilot, used to tell me that the only really bad decisions are the ones you stick to even when you get facts that support a change in the mission.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
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- Nov 07, 2020