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			 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 Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral read more 
	 The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. 
		
 
	
			 Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That read more 
	 Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. 
		
 
	
			 The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an 
indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be read more 
	 The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an 
indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be 
repeatedly emphasized. 
		
 
	
			 It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be read more 
	 It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. 
		
 
	
			 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.  
	 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. 
		
 
	
			 If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful  
	 If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful 
		
 
	
			 Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.  
	 Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. 
		
 
	
			 It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But after every war read more 
	 It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But after every war we have followed through with a new rise in our standard of living by the application of war-taught knowledge for the benefit of the world. It will be the same with the atomic bomb principles.