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If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful
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.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a read more
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore read more
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future read more
If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.