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"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to veterans of foreign Wars)" »Gerald R. Ford
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968
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"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born." »Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
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"wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." »John Knowles
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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." »William Westmoreland
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"For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class." »Hans Konig
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"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own." »Johann von Goethe
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"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"So long as there are men there will be wars." »Albert Einstein
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"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." »Salvador Dali
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley
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"[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." »Virginia Woolf
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"People don't start wars, governments do." »Ronald Reagan
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"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." »George McGovern
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"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen." »Enoch Powell
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"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore." »Golda Meir
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"Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves." »J. B. Priestley
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"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies." »W. L. George
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"wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies." »W.L. George
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"wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism." »Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
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"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington
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