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| Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. | | Winston Churchill | |
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| To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman | | George Santayana | |
| To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches | | Thomas Paine | |
| To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. | | George Washington | |
| War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes | | Thomas Paine | |
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| War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. | | Winston Churchill | |
| War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. | | John Stuart Mill | |
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| War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
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| War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. | | T.S. Eliot | |
| War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. | | Cardinal Richelieu | |
