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• Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

  Carroll Quigley

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Depression, War

• Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Genocide, Sensibility

• The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Terrible, World

• Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Nation, Survival

• In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Humanity, Leadership

  Tags in Converse, War, Crimes

• Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Democracies, Terrorism, War

• All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there’s going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

  Richard Shelby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Win, War

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don’t know anything you don’t need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  Abraham Pais

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Rules

• Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

  Richard Perle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enemies, Need, War

• If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

  Richard Perle

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Together, War

• The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

  Richard Perle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Cold

• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation’s greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Richard Perle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, War, Nation

• It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Made, War

• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

  Walter Kohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Austrian, War

• My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

  Walter Kohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Australian, War

• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education… no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  Abraham Flexner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nations, War, Civilization

• Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don’t get that critical of a government that’s leading us in war time.

  Walter Isaacson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Government

• I care about politics just like any other citizen. I’m against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in War

• I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

  Chief Joseph

  Topics in Country

  Tags in War

• On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Country

  Tags in War, Nation