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I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not. Chris Matthews
war
A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries. Clint Eastwood
war
With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down. Franco Modigliani
war men mastery
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men. Bertrand Russell
war hate patriotic
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.
war love-is men
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
warehouse
We have more programming in our warehouse than we can monetize on traditional TV, Eric Frankel
warm
Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.
war support suffering
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us. William Shakespeare
government
If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
government wanna
I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em. Gallagher
government placed united
The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. Edward Snowden
government tells understand
What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes. Elaine Stritch
government issue pension priority
The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy, Vicente Fox
government means pictures vietnam war
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
government
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. Daniel Webster
government opposition supported
We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.
government interests latter local peculiar represents system
The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former. John C. Calhoun
vietnam enough enough-is-enough
Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam. Charles Rangel
vietnam cambodia felt
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. Ed Bradley
vietnam aviation flight
I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat. Dick Rutan
vietnam syndromes fabrication
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. Noam Chomsky
vietnam occupation driven
God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. Muqtada al Sadr
vietnam hiding accusing
Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam. Jay Leno
vietnam film
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. Francis Ford Coppola
vietnam daze kind
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam Parker Stevenson
vietnam married
I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married. Joe Namath