- Man
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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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- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
- Great Tragedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
- Gamblers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got to feed them, he's got to pay them, he's got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember Congressman Conyers voting against the PATRIOT Act, voting against the Iraq War when it was unpopular to. That tremendous amount of courage that comes with that kind of leadership, I mean, that's what we need.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family moved from Rangoon to Rawalpindi during World War II. My father was born in Lahore in 1946. Those were difficult times.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often when we talk about war, conflict or terrorism, we talk about it very politically. We forget that there are people involved.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.
- Brave Men
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- Nov 07, 2020