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| God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord. |
| George S. Patton |
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| He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death |
| Thomas Paine |
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| Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them! |
| Albert Einstein |
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| I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. |
| Winston Churchill |
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| I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it |
| Woodrow T. Wilson |
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| I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. |
| Douglas MacArthur |
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| I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations |
| Otto von Bismarck |
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| I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival |
| T.S. Eliot |
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| I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth... rocks." |
| Albert Einstein |
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| I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. |
| Anne Frank |
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| I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I was not sure we had enough troops. The case was made, it was listened to, it was considered. … A judgment was made by those responsible that the troop strength was adequate. |
| Colin Powell |
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| I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. |
| George S. Patton |
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| If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin |
| Adolf Hitler |
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| If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans |
| Otto von Bismarck |
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| If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth |
| Harry S Truman |
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