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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)
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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
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
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.: General Smedley Butler
Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.: South
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
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.: George Sands
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)

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