“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”
— Lester B. Pearson
Author: Lester B. Pearson
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document.
“The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.”
— Dan Savage
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That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion.
“That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.”
— Shimon Peres
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War is war. The only good human
“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
— George Orwell
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I started studying what the nature of
“I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.”
— Maya Lin
Author: Maya Lin
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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party
“Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.”
— Ron Paul
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There is a strong tendency in the
“There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.”
— George McGovern
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War is cruelty. There is no use
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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It matters not what your individual position
“It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting – in Iraq or Afghanistan – certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.”
— Solomon Ortiz
Author: Solomon Ortiz
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Not all moral issues have the same
“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”
— Joseph Ratzinger
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the
“World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.”
— Stephen Ambrose
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