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Thomas Carlyle

"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."

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"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."

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"To hold a pen is to be at war."

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

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"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."

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"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."

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"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."

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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

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