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    Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.

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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to read more

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

by Winston Churchill Found in: War Quotes,
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

by Colonel Samuel Prescott Found in: War Quotes,
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those read more

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

by Dwight D. Eisenhower Found in: War Quotes,
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When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

by Arthur Ponsonby Found in: War Quotes,
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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.

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

by Thomas Mann Found in: War Quotes,
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. read more

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.

by Mark Twain Found in: War Quotes,
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Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?

by Erwin Rommel Found in: War Quotes,
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

by Abigail Van Buren Found in: War Quotes,
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