10,941 Quotes About War

  • Author Nancy Milford
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    Jack Reed, whom The New York Times had labeled "the Bolshevik agitator," hesitated and then equivocated on the stand. But by then the defense of The Masses was plain: criticism of the government didn't amount to a desire to overthrow it. If all hostile opinion were suppressed, how could Americans believe they lived in a free country? Dissent was a safeguard to freedom, not an impediment.

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  • Author W.B. Yeats
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    I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behindIn balance with this life, this death.

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  • Author Dunya Mikhail
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    If the world were flatlike a magic carpet,our sorrow would have a beginning and an end.If the world were square,we would lie low in a cornerwhen the war plays "hide and seek."If the world were round,our dreams would take turns on the ferris wheel,and we would be equal.

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  • Author Dean F. Wilson
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    Nothing else attacked the submarine that day, or the days that followed, but every sound was heard as the battle cry of a beast, every creak the war song of the deep. Nerves were frayed, and many among the crew found it difficult to rest, and impossible to sleep. For those who fought their way into the realms of slumber, the battle raged on in their dreams.

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