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Algernon Sydney

"That is the best Government, which best provides for war."

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"That is the best Government, which best provides for war."

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Donna Grant

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

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Donna Grant

"That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians."

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Donna Grant

"You want war??...Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If you disire for more... it sounds like you are cruel, so far I can understand it you are the bad guy, aren't you?"

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Donna Grant

"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."

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Donna Grant

"Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go."

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Donna Grant

"War is what happens when language fails."

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Donna Grant

"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."

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Donna Grant

"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."

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Donna Grant

"At war, there's no right or wrong.Winner's right while loser's wrong."

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"A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast."
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"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."
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"The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy."
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"Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?"
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"Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty."
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