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3 December 2020 Rand Paul

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

3 December 2020 Neil Young

I don’t like war. I particularly don’t like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

3 December 2020 John T. Flynn

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

3 December 2020 James Hillman

You don’t attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It’s the same thing with psychotherapy.

3 December 2020 Barry Commoner

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

3 December 2020 Barbara Boxer

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

3 December 2020 Joan Rivers

She doesn’t understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

3 December 2020 Bianca Jagger

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn’t like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

3 December 2020 Bianca Jagger

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

3 December 2020 Denzel Washington

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

3 December 2020 Will Durant

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

3 December 2020 Jim Ramstad

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

3 December 2020 Simone de Beauvoir

All oppression creates a state of war.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

3 December 2020 Herman Cain

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don’t even want to try. I don’t agree with that approach.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved – a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

3 December 2020 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

3 December 2020 Ted Nugent

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don’t crush evil then evil will get you.

3 December 2020 Fred Woodworth

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee

This war is not about slavery.

3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

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