"The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war."
4
"If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being."
6
"Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows."
6
"War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!"
4
"If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message."
5
"Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?"
4
"In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on."
3
"When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?"
3
"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
6
"The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't."
3
"One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone."
6
"If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air."
6
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
6
"War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war."
5
"And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."
6
"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week."
5
"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
3
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
6
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
6
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
5
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