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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

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War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

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War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

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Born: June 5, 1887
Died: September 17, 1948 (aged 61)
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