"War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again."
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"War is the enemy of all mankind."
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"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
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"When adults wage war, children perish."
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"War is like night, she said. It covers everything."
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"Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?"
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"The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained."
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"See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer."
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"I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together."
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"There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene."
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"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive."
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"Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell."
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"War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers."
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"Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'."
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"Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe."
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"The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics."
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"A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet."
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"War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another."
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"We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry."
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"The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was a grand and glorious spectacle, and it was impossible to look at it without admiration."
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