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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
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Hellboy is modeled on my father in some ways: a guy who's been in the Korean War, and he's traveled, and he's done a lot of stuff, and he's kind of got a been there, done that attitude. He's also been in the world. Del Toro's change was to have Hellboy bottled up in a room and mooning over the girl he can't have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, the loudest stadium I've ever played in was 45,000 people at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas. The entire thing is concrete. It's like dropping a ball bearing in your neighbor's basement.
- Declaring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize.
- Intervention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.
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- Nov 07, 2020