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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘war’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.” -Jeane Kirkpatrick
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“A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
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“The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.” -Charles Evans Hughes
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“War would end if the dead could return.” -Stanley Baldwin
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“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” -Euripides
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“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” -Salvador Dali
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“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” -Carl Sandburg
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“It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.” -Fred Woodworth
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“War remains the decisive human failure.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” -Thomas Mann
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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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“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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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.” -Napoleon Hill
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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” -Francois Fenelon
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