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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."
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"I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident."

"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."

"Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp."

"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

"They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human."
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