"Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war."
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"Intellect is invisible to the man who has none."
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"Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is universal law and each individual must manifest this law. Man will forever war with man until he learns to give his all with the full expectation of equal receiving, and never taking that which is not given as an earned reward for his giving."
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"He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace."
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"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service."
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"No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique."
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"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."
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"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective."
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"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
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"If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong."
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"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."
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"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry."
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"Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth."
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"Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so."
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"You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!"
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
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"I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war."
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"History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war."
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"Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling."
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"War: that mad game the world so loves to play."
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