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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies. — Zoe Saldana

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at. — Bobbye L. Hudspeth

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. — Phyllis Schlafly

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? — Michael Ignatieff

Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger. — George Vecsey

Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'. — Maureen Daly

Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war. — Barry Goldwater

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war. — Lord George Gordon

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that. — Helmut Schmidt

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves ... After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. — Bill Hicks

If there was anyone ma-porma during the Fil-American War, it was Heneral Goyo. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. — Pete Hamill

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American. — Edward Dahlberg

Hate war, but love the American Warrior. — Hal Moore

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American. — Anthony Hopkins

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will. — Joe Lieberman

There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War. — Gertrude Stein

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people? — Wally Herger

Counting both Northerners and Southerners, more American lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other conflict. — Richard Shenkman

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. — Bruce Jackson

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours. — Norman Finkelstein

Grant stood by me when I was crazy ... — William Tecumseh Sherman

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking. — Phil Klay

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy. — Roseanne Barr

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual. — A.E. Samaan

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. — Dave Barry

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants. — Cofer Black

Middlestein thought texting was the same as Morse code, and the more people texted, the closer American came to being a nation at war. — Jami Attenberg

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. — Norman Mailer

I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical. — Sara Novic

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis. — Karl Donitz

Lyndon Johnson bared his scars, American ... stars 'n bars. — Neil Young

The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides. — Charles R. Morris

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism. — James Woolsey

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs. — Zach Braff

Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern. — Charles W. Carey Jr.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president, — John Boehner

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it. — Michael Baumgartner

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests. — Peter Brimelow

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration. — George C. Marshall

How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. — Jay Grewal

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. — Katherine Dunn

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over. — Bill Kristol

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war. — Richard M. Nixon

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. — Jefferson Davis

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. — Jefferson Davis

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. — George S. Patton Jr.

You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine. — Philip Berrigan

Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut Up. — Bill O'Reilly

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable. — Ambrose Bierce

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. — Benjamin Rush

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine. — Janine Di Giovanni

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too. — Rosa Brooks

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. — Michael Caine

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's. — Hanoi Hannah

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation. — John Allen Fraser

'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still. — Mike Barnicle

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day. — Jonah Goldberg

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before. — Noam Chomsky

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash. — Jerry Pournelle

Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas, and librarians
are the arms dealers selling weapons to both sides — James Quinn

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that. — David Mandel

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. — Abraham Lincoln

American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible). — Juan Williams

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic. — Justin Raimondo

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. — George Wald

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. — William H. Seward

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex. — Phil Klay

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public. — Patrick J. Kennedy

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power. — Michael Mandelbaum

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. — Ty Cobb

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in. — Jonathan Haidt

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously. — Tim O'Brien

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. — Raul Grijalva

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit was killed. — Charles B. Rangel

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas. — Newt Gingrich

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high. — Christopher Hitchens

Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. — John Parker

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people. — Paul Robeson

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. — William Randolph Hearst

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause. — Michael Kazin

What a splendid little war! — John Hayes

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. — George McGovern

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades. — Ian Bremmer

Only Jack has remarked on the irony that America is going to war against a white supremacist enemy with a segregated American army. — Michael Grant

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. — Anson Mount

And so the greatest of American triumphs ... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades. — Robert M. Gates

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions — Art Rust Jr.

War times, he said, and the American officer could take what he liked. They in Caguan were noncombatants — Anonymous