“I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.”– Jane Smiley Related Quotes “There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”– John F. Kennedy “When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.”– George McGovern “This is a game. That’s all it is. It’s not a war.”– Jack Nicklaus