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    Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.

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All quiet along the Potomac they say
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot as read more

All quiet along the Potomac they say
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,
By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

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The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. read more

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.

by Hermann Hagedorn Found in: War Quotes,
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Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

by Ernest Hemingway Found in: War Quotes,
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If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

by C.s. Lewis Found in: War Quotes,
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only read more

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Found in: War Quotes,
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

by Lester Bowles Pearson Found in: War Quotes,
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The next World War will be fought with stones.

The next World War will be fought with stones.

by Albert Einstein Found in: War Quotes,
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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.

by Louis Lecoin Found in: Ideals Quotes, War Quotes,
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Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

by Napoleon Bonaparte Found in: War Quotes,
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