“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.”
— Abbie Hoffman
Author: Abbie Hoffman
Category: war
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“It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Category: war
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“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
— Gertrude Stein
Author: Gertrude Stein
Category: war
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“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”
— Stanislaw Lec
Author: Stanislaw Lec
Category: war
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“There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.”
— Will Durant
Author: Will Durant
Category: war
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“I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them – active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular – to try and end the war.”
— Jane Fonda
Author: Jane Fonda
Category: war
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“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”
— Donald Trump
Author: Donald Trump
Category: war
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“Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.”
— Frank B. Kellogg
Author: Frank B. Kellogg
Category: war
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“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”
— Thomas Paine
Author: Thomas Paine
Category: war
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“And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.”
— Dana Rohrabacher
Author: Dana Rohrabacher
Category: war
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“One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”
— Howard Zinn
Author: Howard Zinn
Category: war
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