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"That is the best Government, which best provides for war."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
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"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural."
"The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy."
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
"God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it."
"'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."
"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."
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