"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."
-Douglas MacArthur
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.“
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"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
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"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."
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"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear."
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"In war there is no substitute for victory."
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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
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