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"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."
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"War is the business of barbarians."
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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!"
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"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."
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"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
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"Women and children make you weak, get rid of them when you are in war."
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"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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"One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it."
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"Serious sport is war minus the shooting."
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"A war between Europeans is a civil war."
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"We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart."
Heart
"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."
Patriotism
"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."
Heart
"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."
Time
"It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great."
Men
"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."
Difference
"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."
Business
"Reform is born of need, not pity."
Pity
"But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth."
Fault
"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."
Life
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