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Letter "W" » War
«Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.»
Author: Abraham Flexner
| About:
Civilization,
Nations,
War
| Keywords:
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«No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.»
«Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
War,
Youth
| Keywords:
declare, declared war, declare war
«Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.»
Author: Hermann Goering
| About:
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
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«No longer a city, but a burnt-out prarie. How empty Hiroshima looks without it's homes.»
«No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.»
«No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Events,
History,
War
| Keywords:
American history, misunderstood, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then»
Author: Tom Lehrer
(Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Country,
Prayer,
Religion,
War
| Keywords:
bothered, eighteen, Germans, nineteen, warlike
«One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
prepare, prepare for, prevent, simultaneously, war
«Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it.»
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