War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
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It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of m…
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and char…
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're…
During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country be…
I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.
If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States an…
Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war …
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.