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"Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand."
"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale."
"There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers."
"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
"Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself."
"It was not war, it was murder."
"Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country."
"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."
"The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion."
"I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy]."
"Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
"Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars."
"United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory."
"Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource."
"You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America."
"Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob."
"While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."
"At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess."
"The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about."
"That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you."
