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“We make war that we may live in peace.”
— Aristotle
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“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
— Edmund Burke
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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
— George Orwell
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“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
— H. G. Wells
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“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”
— Will Rogers
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“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.”
— James Madison
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“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”
— John F. Kennedy
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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”
— Carl Sandburg
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“We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.”
— Harry S. Truman
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“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
— Winston Churchill
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“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
— George Orwell
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“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
— Plato
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“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
— George Orwell
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