"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
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"Isn't the best defense always a good attack?"
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"A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage. ... [Conversely, tactical plans may] ... have to be changed several times a day."
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"It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an... But it does not necessarily follow that... they have integrated themselves completely with the masses here. The two must be completely integrated if we are to push ahead with our revolutionary work."
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"Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war."
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"For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race."
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"The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it."
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"In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today."
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"Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons."
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"A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war."
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"Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace."
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"War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale."
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"If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace."
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"After victory, you have more enemies."
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"I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another."
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"Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation was to put German Jews in jail. Tens of thousands of Jews - who had just been fortunate enough to get out from under Hitler only a few years before - spent the entire war in jail."
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"He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men."
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"My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon."
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"We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?"
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"There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in."
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