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• My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action.
  My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

  Arlen Specter

  Father, War, Men

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• Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  War, Women, Doe

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• My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

  Kenneth Arrow

  War, World, Study

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• When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

  Oscar Levant

  Friends, War, Boards

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• The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because of my people around the earth! They are the only hope. Only millions of buddhas are capable of creating the atmosphere for peace, for love, for compassion, for celebration.

  Rajneesh

  War, Compassion, Creating

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• I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.

  Linda Grant

  Depression, War, Decision

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• There will be no veterans of World War III.

  Walter F. Mondale

  War, World, Veteran

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• They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

  Howard K. Smith

  War, Issues, Wish

  "Newscaster Howard K. Smith dies at 87". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2002.

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• The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

  Howard Fineman

  Country, War, Media

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• Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Bridges, Cities

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• Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Soldier, Battle

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• Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

  George S. Patton

  War, Home, Want

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, War, Book

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Attitude, War, America

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Thinking

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

  Lloyd Alexander

  War, Army, World

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• There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, August, Years

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.168, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?

  Tom Hanks

  Dog, War, Yellow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Country, War, People

  "'Behind the Bias': How Media's Hostility Towards GOP Began". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2011.

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• December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Air Force, December

  Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941

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• You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

  James Cagney

  War, Struggle, Tired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, Umpires

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Winning, World

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• Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War II, they were aggressively excluded from neighborhoods, jobs, and homes - not because of their skin color, but their accents.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Jobs, War

  "Web Extra: Read an Exclusive Excerpt of Ann Coulter's New Book", abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2012.

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