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~ The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table and deny the aggressor theirs. ~

Richard M. Nixon

~ The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power. ~

Rudy Giuliani

~ More and more lawmakers of both parties are increasingly disillusioned by the military's policy of exclusion and discrimination. ~

C. Dixon Osburn

~ Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. ~

George Washington

~ The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. ~

Noam Chomsky

~ Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ~

Groucho Marx

~ In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex ~

Dwight Eisenhower

~ In an interconnected world, the defeat of international terrorism – and most importantly, the prevention of these terrorist organizations from obtaining weapons of mass destruction -- will require the cooperation of many nations. We must always reserve the right to strike unilaterally at terrorists wherever they may exist. But we should know that our success in doing so is enhanced by engaging our allies so that we receive the crucial diplomatic, military, intelligence, and financial support that can lighten our load and add legitimacy to our actions. This means talking to our friends and, at times, even our enemies. ~

BARACK OBAMA

~ Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria. ~

HOWARD ZINN

~ Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere. ~

Bill Shuster

~ Our military superiority is so great — it’s far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days… Now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad… The odds are there’s going to be a war and it’s going to be not for very long. ~

Bill Clinton

~ Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ~

Groucho Marx

~ So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. ~

Sun Tzu

~ Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ~

General George Catlett Marshall

~ The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ Military men are the scourges of the world ~

Guy de Maupassant

~ Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology ~

Rebecca West

~ My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no more war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. ~

Rosanne Barr

~ My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness ~

Lord Mountbatten

~ The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. ~

Barbara Tuchman

~ There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. ~

Barbara Amiel

~ On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind. ~

Dan Lipinski

~ The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs. ~

Richard M. Nixon

~ To kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque [Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. ~

Osama bin Laden

~ In today's wars, there are no morals. We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets. ~

Osama bin Laden

Noam Chomsky

~ One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting ~

Jimmy Carter

~ I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. ~

John F. Kerry

~ Only those who are ideologically opposed to†military†programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs. ~

Herman Kahn

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