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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
Chief Joseph
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Patricia Cornwell
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The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
Frank Chodorov
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman
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War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
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All wars are planned by old men
In council rooms apart.
Grantland Rice
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Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
John Amery
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I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
Dave Barry
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India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Douglas MacArthur
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I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
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I believe that the war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.... I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
Aberjhani
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
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History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Enoch Powell
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
Allan Massie
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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
Herbert Read
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
Alison Lurie
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
Omar Bradley
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All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
Ernie Pyle
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
Edward Dahlberg
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The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
George Marshall
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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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