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Jefferson Davis on war
Author: Jefferson Davis“I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.” -Jefferson Davis
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Stephen King on war
Author: Stephen King“What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.” -Stephen King
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Thucydides on war
Author: Thucydides“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.” -Thucydides
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Julius Caesar on war
Author: Julius Caesar“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.” -Julius Caesar
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John Paul Jones on war
Author: John Paul Jones“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.” -John Paul Jones
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Larry Elder on war
Author: Larry Elder“The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.” -Larry Elder
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Edward Abbey on war
Author: Edward Abbey“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.” -Edward Abbey
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Leon Trotsky on war
Author: Leon Trotsky“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” -Leon Trotsky
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P. J. O’Rourke on war
Author: P. J. O’Rourke“The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am…
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Calvin Coolidge on war
Author: Calvin Coolidge“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” -Calvin Coolidge
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Samuel Butler on war
Author: Samuel Butler“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.” -Samuel Butler
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Joe Baca on war
Author: Joe Baca“Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.” -Joe Baca
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Henry A. Kissinger on war
Author: Henry A. Kissinger“The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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Robert E. Lee on war
Author: Robert E. Lee“The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.” -Robert E. Lee
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Jean-Paul Sartre on war
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre“Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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Henry Louis Gates on war
Author: Henry Louis Gates“Let’s face it – think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the…
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Red Auerbach on war
Author: Red Auerbach“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.” -Red Auerbach
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Immanuel Kant on war
Author: Immanuel Kant“Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’” -Immanuel Kant
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Colin Powell on war
Author: Colin Powell“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.” -Colin Powell
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Simone de Beauvoir on war
Author: Simone de Beauvoir“All oppression creates a state of war.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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Alexis de Tocqueville on war
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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Harry S. Truman on war
Author: Harry S. Truman“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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Leo Tolstoy on war
Author: Leo Tolstoy“War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.” -Leo Tolstoy