Refinement Series
War
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Collected War
Latest AdditionsEvery good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but if you want to use that phrase - every good film, a first-rate film about war, is an anti-war movie.— Michael Cimino
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War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.— Alfred Hermann Fried
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I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.— Bayard Rustin
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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.— John Steinbeck
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.— Ludwig von Mises
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I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.— Charles B. Rangel
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If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.— Chesty Puller
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We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.— Pankaj Mishra
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I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.— Jonathan Powell
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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.— George McGovern
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I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.— Jimmy Carter
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The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.— Karl Marlantes
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Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pressing for the United States, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the deepening Syrian civil war to the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin.— Peter Bergen
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A war with any level of attrition in the Pacific could quickly turn catastrophic without sufficient warships, combat logistics vessels, and merchant ships. Outnumbered and without the capacity to replace, refuel, and provision our troops, we would struggle to deliver victory.— Michael Waltz
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.— R. W. Apple, Jr.
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Trade accords had been a staple of the post-World War II world, providing a mechanism for economic growth, development, and association with friends and allies, and a means of reining in would-be adversaries who otherwise would have little incentive to act with restraint.— Richard N. Haass
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