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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
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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 connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
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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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"That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians."
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"In a war, the first casualty is human dignity."
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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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"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
Heaven
"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
Virtue
"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
Sea
"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art."
Art
"Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep."
Leadership
"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
Public
"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."
Love
"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
Recreation
"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."
Fear
"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."
War
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