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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Toni Morrison on war

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
Henry A. Wallace on war

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
Kevin O'Leary on war

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
George McGovern on war

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
George McGovern on war

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern on war

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey on war

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg on war

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg on war

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
Mikhail Baryshnikov on war

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.
Tony Blair on war

Accursed be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe on war

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Charles de Montesquieu on war

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 on war

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
Ron Fournier on war

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
Ron Fournier on war

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.
George Galloway on war

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz on war

Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Karl Von Clausewitz on war

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Karl Von Clausewitz on war