Quotes with war-making

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  • Bob Graham There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Billy Campbell There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Alison Lurie 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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  • John F. Kennedy There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William T. Sherman There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Machiavelli There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Theodore Harold White There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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  • Carlo Ponti There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
    Carlo Ponti
    Italian film producer (1912 - 2007)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Havelock Ellis There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Dale Carnegie There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Douglas Jerrold There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Amelia Earhart There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Arleigh Burke There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
    Arleigh Burke
    American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There never was a good war or a bad peace.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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