3 December 2020 Toni Morrison Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it.
3 December 2020 Joe Baca Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
3 December 2020 Pedro Calderon de la Barca One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
3 December 2020 Oliver Stone I’ve been to war, and it’s not easy to kill. It’s bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
3 December 2020 Stephen Ambrose World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
3 December 2020 Lester B. Pearson As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
3 December 2020 Colin Quinn So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth I Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
3 December 2020 Dick Cheney I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.
3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
