"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

George Orwell, British Author

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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

George Orwell, British Author

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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

Oliver Stone, American Director

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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

Arthur Keith, Scottish Scientist

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"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."

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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

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"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."

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"One man with courage is a majority."

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"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

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"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."

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"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."

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"The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them."

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