“Carrie lay on the bed and gazed at the ceiling. She was back in business. It was a day to remember. December 7, the same day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day America declared war on Japan.America declared war. And she was a whore again.”

“Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth”

“It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.”

“Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.”

“It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.”

“To give, is to declare a war of sharing.”