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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
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There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
- Man
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
- Peace
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
- Preservation
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The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
- Job
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Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax.
- Diary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
- Chance
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I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.
- Government
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Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
- Funny
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When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.
- Mother
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My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he'd be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again.
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