"I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary."
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"The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to keeping security in Europe, so that we do not face another world war."
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"The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain."
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"Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation."
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"We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press."
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"But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer."
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"Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won."
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"It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening."
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"I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza."
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"Advise none to marry or go to war."
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"He that makes a good war makes a good peace."
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"Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace."
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"Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches."
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"He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]"
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"In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove."
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"The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]"
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"In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year."
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"I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt."
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"We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy."
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"Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. And we make it abundantly clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement. We have the thought that in this nation of many states we have found the way in which men of many racial origins may live together in peace. If the human race as a whole is to survive, the world must find a way by which men and nations may live together in peace. We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny."
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