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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war.

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

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A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

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Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

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Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.

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The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

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If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

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When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

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We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

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