Famous Quotes: War

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
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I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
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I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
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We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
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