"Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination."

War, Failure, Horror

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"Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination."

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"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."

Tony Greig, South African Athlete

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."

George Orwell, British Author

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"It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq."

Kenneth Clarke, English Politician

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

George Orwell, British Author

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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"In a war, the first casualty is human dignity."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

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"We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws."

Government, People, Force, Laws

"They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government."

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"We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public."

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"Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination."

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"That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness."

Truth, Cause, Darkness, Light

"Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty."

Government, Liberty, Name, Now

"Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly."

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"The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good."

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"Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events."

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"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."

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