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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"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."
"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."
"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"
Explore more quotes by Charles de Montesquieu
"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
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