The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
You cannot be politically correct in a war.
Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.
But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
War is about dead people.
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
After every war someone has to tidy up.
We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the dead or fortify a town? If I allow myself to laugh in the face of misery, I rest my mind from the stress of it al...
Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that tw...
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