“Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Category: war
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“Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Category: war
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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
— Thomas Mann
Author: Thomas Mann
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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Category: war
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“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.”
— John Foster Dulles
Author: John Foster Dulles
Category: war
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“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
Author: David Herbert Lawrence
Category: war
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“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”
— Albert Pike
Author: Albert Pike
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“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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“Laws are silent in time of war.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”
— Helen Keller
Author: Helen Keller
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“But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer.”
— Helen Thomas
Author: Helen Thomas
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“I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.”
— Madeleine Albright
Author: Madeleine Albright
Category: war
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