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Letter "W" » War
«Why don't presidents fight the war?/ Why do they always send the poor? ... B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs).»
«Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?»
«When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
preventive, Preventives, preventive war, settles
«When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.»
Author: Janet Flanner
(Journalist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
courthouse, Nuremberg, prisoners, prisoner of war, ruins, startling
«When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
American System, diametrically, European, paternalism, Philosophy of, rugged individualism
«When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Courtesy,
Music,
War
| Keywords:
appreciated, courtesies, courtesy, understood
«When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Future,
War
| Keywords:
discuss, Future of, statesmen, wars
«Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Army,
Commanders,
Crime,
Deserted,
Leaders,
Leadership,
Marines,
Rectitude,
Reputation,
Troops,
War
| Keywords:
bleaches, casualties, commanders, Marines, returned
«When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.»
«When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
giants, pygmies, Pygmy, The War, The War of the, wars
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