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Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!

Charlie Chaplin

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Monsieur Verdoux. Directed by Charlie Chaplin, United Artists, 1947.

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I doubt whether any of these people, with their academic or dogmatic hatred of war, detest it as much as I do. They probably have not seen the bodies rotting on the ground and smelled the stench of decaying human flesh...What separates me from the pacifists is that I hate the Nazis more than I hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

On pacifists.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Letter to Arthur Eisenhower. 2 July. 1943.

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Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one, and war is a link in God's world order. In him, the noblest virtues of man, courage and renunciation, devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice, unfold with the institution of life. Without the war, the world would become bogged down in materialism.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Von Moltke, Helmuth. Letter to Johann Caspar Bluntschli. 11 Dec. 1880.

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Yes, the purpose of war is to serve a political end, but the true nature of war is to serve itself.

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Crimson Tide. Directed by Tony Scott, Hollywood Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1995.

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Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Suetonius

Said by gladiators saluting the Roman Emperor prior to combat.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 50.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 50.

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You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!

Dr. Strangelove

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Dr. Strangelove. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Hawk Films, 1964.

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I am in a world of shit, yes, but I am alive and I'm not afraid.

Private Joker

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Full Metal Jacket. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Natant/Harrier Films, 1987.

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Let me have war, say I. It exceeds peace as far as day does night. It's sprightly waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible.

William Shakespeare

Coriolanus

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Shakespeare, William. "Coriolanus." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Coriolanus." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

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He is wise who tries everything before arms.

Terence

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Terence. Eunuchus [The Eunuch]. 161 BC, Megalesian Games, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 7.

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

George Washington

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Washington, George. "First Annual Message to Both Houses of Congress." 8 Jan. 1790, Senate Chamber, Federal Hall, New York City, NY, USA.

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Washington, George. "First Annual Message to Congress, January 8, 1790." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison

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Madison, James. Political Observations. Philadelphia, 20 Apr. 1795.

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Madison, James. "War and Republicanism; from Political Observations, April 20, 1795." Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, ch. 57.

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Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

Dr. Strangelove

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Dr. Strangelove. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Hawk Films, 1964.

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God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.

Voltaire

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Voltaire. The Piccini Notebooks. c. 1738-1750.

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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at a Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia." Sanitary Fair. 16 Jun. 1864, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Great Central Sanitary Fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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For what can war, but endless war still breed?

John Milton

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Milton, John. "To My Lord Fairfax." Letters of State Written by Mr. John Milton. London, 1694, l. 10.

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Milton, John. "On the Lord General Fairfax." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 10.

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