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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their o

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle

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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. – Thomas Carlyle

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Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come. – Carl Sandburg

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With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story. – Mira Nair

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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. – L. Neil Smith

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In every war zone that Ive been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. – John le Carre

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