"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."

War, Wisdom, Progress, Circumstances

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"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes."

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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

John Green, American Author

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"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

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"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."

Juan Cole, American Educator

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"You should never consider finished a war you did not win."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."

James Dickey, American Novelist

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"No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment."It's the mark of a very, very young soul, Mr. Whittier used to say, "to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore forest fires. Oil spills. Serial killers."

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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

Duty

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."

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"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

Happiness

"Every man who knows anything of languages, knows that it is impossible to translate from one language into another, not only without losing a great part of the original, but frequently of mistaking the sense."

Knowledge

"It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration."

Direction

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

Conflict

"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."

Duty

"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."

Government

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

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