- Depression
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
- Dismayed
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
While President Obama raised the hopes of Americans and Cubans alike with a forward-looking opening in diplomatic, commercial and people-to-people ties, President Trump is turning back the clock to a tragically failed Cold War mindset by reimposing restrictions on those activities.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020