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Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. – Ron Fournier

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. – Karl Von Clausewitz

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. – Daryn Kagan

War itself is the enemy of the human race. – Howard Zinn

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. – Luc de Clapiers

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. – Margaret J. Wheatley

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. – Howard Dean

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time. – Jane Goodall

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. – Peggy Noonan

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war. – Herbert Hoover

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. – Joni Mitchell

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. – Clara Zetkin

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped. – William Hague

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering. – Dennis Prager

The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War is over if you want it. – Yoko Ono

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. – Thomas Hobbes

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. – George McGovern

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. – George McGovern

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. – George McGovern