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"There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!"

"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again."

"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."

"It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century."
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"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."

"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
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