The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don’t want to make money that way. I don’t want blood money.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.