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Letter "W" » War
«I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.»
«I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.»
Author: Gen Mark W. Clark
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
commander, misgiving, misgivings, signature, signatures
«I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so»
Author: Romain Rolland
(Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
detestable, participated, participates, participating, praise
«I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.»
Author: Sir David Low
(Cartoonist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
bluff, bluffer, game show, Game shows, horrible, hostile, monster, shown, silly
«I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace.»
Author: Walter H. Pater
| About:
America and Americans,
Hope,
War
| Keywords:
deals, gimmick, gimmicks
«I see no reason why this war must go on»
«I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
brutalities, brutality, futility, lived, seen, soldier, stupidity
«I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.»
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman
(General)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
field of battle, newspapers, The Field
«I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Language,
War
| Keywords:
atomic, impel, impelled, impelling, impels, in a sense, new one, preferred, The Military, warfare
«I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Enemies,
War
| Keywords:
alarming, approve, barbarously, developments, exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, extermination, exterminations, point of view
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