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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery to be imposed on them without resorting to a defensive war are inevitably doomed to years of death and suffering-and far more of each than any war would bring to them....The army doesn't exist that can annihilate men in their own land-not if they love it sufficiently.

Kenneth Roberts

They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

Kenneth Roberts

Kenneth Roberts

Kenneth Roberts

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Born: December 8, 1885

Died: July 21, 1957 (aged 71)

Bio: Kenneth Lewis Roberts was an American author of historical novels. Roberts worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist.

Known for:

Northwest Passage (1937)
Rabble in arms (1933)
Oliver Wiswell (1940)
Lydia Bailey (1947)
The Lively Lady (1931)

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