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- We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.
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- The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
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- The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity.
- Dag Hammarskj÷ld
- So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.
- Eugene V. Debs
- To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.
- Senator Homer T. Bone
- Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
- Cardinal John Newman
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