"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"
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"The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]"
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"You preserve your shame but you kill your glory."
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"No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power."
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"War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man."
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"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own."
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"Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread."
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"Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron."
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"The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue."
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"As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy."
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"Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been hurt and soothed. Courage has been instilled and fear has been implanted. Lives have been destroyed and others changed for the better. Think back on your own life when words have hurt you deeply or have comforted and given you strength and hope to do better."
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"if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art."
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"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
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"History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men."
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"Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories."
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"It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village."
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"Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven."
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"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
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"A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor."
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"...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
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