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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. -- Herbert Hoover
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. -- Martin Lewis Perl
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. -- Lech Walesa
In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly. -- Maurice Allais
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. -- Joseph Addison
These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. -- Winifred Holtby
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Sending our youth to war is wrong. -- Michael Berryman
War is horrible because it strangles youth. -- Philip Kearny
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. -- Herbert Hoover
war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored. -- Evadne Price
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed. -- Siegfried Sassoon
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. -- Herbert Hoover
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old. -- George R. R. Martin
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. -- Kingsley Amis
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. -- Ru Freeman
An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth. -- Mary Robinson
I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason. -- Eartha Kitt
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time. -- Aeschylus

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