"During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations."

George William Norris, American Politician

War, Life, Agreement, Leading

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"During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations."

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"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

War, Violence, History, Conflict

"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago."

Joe Baca, American Politician

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"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

War, Nation, Renunciation, Self

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer

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"War is the business of barbarians."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

George Orwell, British Author

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"The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914."

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"Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands."

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"Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests."

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"Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone."

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"I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it."

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"If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars."

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"In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country."

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"There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave."

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"Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet."

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