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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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"Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket."
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"What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war."
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"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
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"Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq."
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"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"
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"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."
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"To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences."
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"They meet, as we shall meet tomorrow, to murder one another; they kill and maim tens of thousands, and then have thanksgiving services for having killed so many people (they even exaggerate the number), and they announce a victory, supposing that the more people they have killed the greater their achievement. How does God above look at them and hear them?" exclaimed Prince Andrew in a shrill, piercing voice. "Ah, my friend, it has of late become hard for me to live. I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.... Ah, well, it's not for long!" he added."
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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
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"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last."
Politics
"The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute."
Power
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Politics
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Politics
"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
Man
"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"
Friendship
"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."
Life
"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time."
Time
"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
Being
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
Love
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