Quotes with war-propaganda

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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bob Hawke My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
    Bob Hawke
     
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Lee Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Aldous Huxley No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
    Source: Collected essays (1959)
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Miller No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
    Source: The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Winston Churchill No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Elie Wiesel None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
    Source: Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • John F. Kennedy Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men; not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
    Source: The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Juvenal Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Gerald Kersh Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
    Gerald Kersh
     
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  • Andrew Jackson Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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