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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
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"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."
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"I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want."
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"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."
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"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."
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"The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally."
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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
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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."
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"The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
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"After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer."
War
"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."
Cause
"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
Learning
"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."
Fortune
"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
School
"At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other."
Time
"I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis."
Talent
"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."
Education
"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
Crisis
"My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher."
Family
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