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PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century
BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

- Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises
Barack ObamaPoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
4.1 · 62 votes · 176 reads
- I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
David CameronPoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century
3.7 · 52 votes · 32 reads
- I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack ObamaPoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
4.9 · 12 votes · 111 reads
- In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Ye
Warren BuffettBusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century
3.0 · 29 votes · 53 reads
- Morality is contraband in war.
3.0 · 55 votes · 13 reads
- One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
Jacques ChiracPoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century
4.4 · 17 votes · 59 reads
- Peace must be more than the absence of war.
Helmut KohlPoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century
4.9 · 28 votes · 104 reads
- So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, o
Barack ObamaPoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
4.5 · 47 votes · 142 reads
- Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Adolf HitlerPoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century
3.7 · 19 votes · 101 reads
- The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple faHannah Arendt
PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century
3.4 · 44 votes · 98 reads
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
3.6 · 48 votes · 115 reads
- The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatic
Tony BlairPoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century
4.3 · 46 votes · 168 reads
- This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
3.8 · 63 votes · 113 reads
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