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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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- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that the British carried out hundreds of war crimes in Iraq is, of course, utterly without foundation and grossly unfair.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
- Nov 07, 2020