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And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

— Chris Matthews

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

— George McGovern

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

— Wilfred Owen

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

— Bao Dai

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.

— Sandy Adams

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

— Steve Southerland

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

— Douglas Haig

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

— Smedley Butler

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

— Jack Youngblood

✗Opposing Perspectives

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

— James Wolfe