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Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.

Miles Kington / Journalist
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Everyone wants peace - and they will fight the most terrible war to get it.

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I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

Ben Katchor Cartoonist

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

Walter Scott Baronet Scott

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

Josephine Baker Dancer

Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

Sebastian Junger Author

If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and fighting wars, the results will be profound. We will gradually lose our successful workforce.

Meg Whitman Business Person

The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

Winston Churchill Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom

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