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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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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
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"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
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"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."
Praise
"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."
Thought
"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."
Care
"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors."
Life
"The keener the want the lustier the growth."
Growth
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
Liberty
"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."
People
"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
Progress
"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."
Man
"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."
Family
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