"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

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"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

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

"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."

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

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"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."