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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"
"Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller."
"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."
"We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away."
Explore more quotes by Wendell Phillips
"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."
"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
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