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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Fighting men are the city's fortress.
 We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression 
will achieve nothing but failure.  
 We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression 
will achieve nothing but failure. 
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore read more
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples read more
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. •Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
The next World War will be fought with stones.
The next World War will be fought with stones.
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would read more
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
 O great corrector of enormous times,
 Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
  Of dusty and old read more 
 O great corrector of enormous times,
 Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
  Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
   The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
    O' the pleurisy of people. 
 From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
 What dire effects from civil discord flow.  
 From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
 What dire effects from civil discord flow.