Quotes 281 till 300 of 634.
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My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.
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My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
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My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.
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My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
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My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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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.
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Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
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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.
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
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No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
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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.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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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.
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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) -
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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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.
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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)
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