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"If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago."
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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."
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"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."
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"The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over."
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"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
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"And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen."
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"A soldier is a killer painted hero."
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"Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket."
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"A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability."
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"I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France."
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"In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth."
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"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."
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"Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand."
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"If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former."
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"In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things."
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"If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three."
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"If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so."
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"If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago."
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"The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited."
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"The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family."
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"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
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