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  • Barbara Boxer For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Francis Bacon For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Arthur Henderson Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Charles de Gaulle France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Joseph Heller Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Aaron C. Brown From the lottery to raise the funds for the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 to the lottery used to pay the interest on Dutch loans to the United States during the Revolutionary War, the development of the United States was funded by gambling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Bob Graham Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Alan Colmes Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
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  • Ben Shapiro Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • John Donne God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bob Barr Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • John Adams Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
    Letter to Abigail Adams, 19-05-1794
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Carole King Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • George Herbert He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Mario Puzo He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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