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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
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 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.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
 Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide 
another, that he may retire the sooner out of read more 
 Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide 
another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe. 
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
 He who flies at the right time can fight again.
 [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure
  Peut read more 
 He who flies at the right time can fight again.
 [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure
  Peut combattre derechef.] 
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.