- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
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- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You come home when the war is won.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.
- Global War
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given its Internet sophistication and the attraction the group has with vast numbers of potential recruits from among disaffected populations around the globe, ISIS has the realistic potential to eventually swell its ranks of jihadists waging a 'holy war' to hundreds of thousands in both the western and eastern hemispheres.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that our weakness is understanding that when we go to war, we go to war to win.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I've seen on our battlefields.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate because he was determined to marry a divorced woman. As a result of that decision, the Queen's father, George VI, was obliged to lead the country through a war that threatened its survival, with all the personal pain portrayed in 'The King's Speech.'
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020