“All war is deception.”
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war
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“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.”
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”
“I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.”
“There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.”
“War settles nothing.”
“War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.”
“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.”
“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”
“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.”
“God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.”
“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.”
“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”
“Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.”
“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.”
“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”
“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
“In time of war the laws are silent.”