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"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies."
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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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"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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"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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"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."
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"When did one man ever civilize a people?"
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"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
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"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
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"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper."
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"A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman."
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"A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold."
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"The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands."
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"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."
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"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."
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