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As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war. -- Tulsi Gabbard
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century. -- Barbara Tuchman
The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible. -- Glenn Greenwald
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself. -- Barbara Tuchman
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. -- Barack Obama
Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team, recounts his deployment to Iraq with unflinching candor, and in the process exposes crucial truths not only about this particular conflict, but also about war throughout history. Castner's memoir brings to mind Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front. -- Jon Krakauer
I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war. -- Tulsi Gabbard
Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege. -- William J. Clinton
War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest. -- Ross Kemp
Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world. -- Louis Farrakhan
It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war. -- Marianne Williamson
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war. -- J. F. C. Fuller
The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq. -- Kent Conrad
If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well. -- George Friedman
Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid. -- James A. Garfield
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. -- Smedley Butler
If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight. -- Philip Pullman
3A.02 WARExpenses for war equipment,Training and peoples recruitment,Be at the cost of hunger and pride,Humanity be charred in this ride.[196] - 3A -- Munindra Misra
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man. -- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit. -- Smedley Butler
Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely. -- Stanislaw Lem
The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines. -- Chris Hayes
Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion . -- George Lee Butler
The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe. -- Ugo Cavallero

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