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I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Fosdick, Harry Emerson. "The Unknown Soldier." The Secret Of Victorious Living. Harper & Brothers, 1934. Originally a sermon delivered on 12 Nov. 1933, Riverside Church, New York, NY, USA.

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In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school-
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low."

Randall Jarrell

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Jarrell, Randall. Losses. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948, I. 22.

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The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting.

Sun Tzu

The Art of War

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Sun Tzu. 孫子兵法 [The Art of War]. c. 475 BC, ch. 3.

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Sun Tzu. The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life, translated by John Minford. Penguin Classics, 2009, ch. 3.

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Golda Meir

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Meir, Golda. Stated after Levi Eshkol delivered a radio address to his nation. c. 1967.

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Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 31.

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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Letter to Mayor James M. Calhoun and E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells. 12 Sept. 1864.

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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. University of North Carolina Press, 1999, ch. 12.

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In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

Crimson Tide

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

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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

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Zedong, Mao. "On Protracted Warfare." Yenan Association for the Study of the War of Resistance Against Japan. 26 May - 3 June 1938, Yenan, China. Lecture series.

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There never was a good War, or a bad Peace.

Benjamin Franklin

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Franklin, Benjamin. Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sr. 11 Sept. 1783.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "To Josiah Quincy, Sr., September 11, 1783." Franklin Papers, Yale University, franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp.

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I am determined to serve and give my life for my country.

Letters from Iwo Jima

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Letters from Iwo Jima. Directed by Clint Eastwood, DreamWorks Pictures/Malpaso Productions/Amblin Entertainment/Warner Bros., 2006.

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There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 4.

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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

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Give brief orders; speeches that are too long are likely to be forgotten.

Abu Bakr

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Bakr, Abu. Quoted in "Sayings of Abu Bakir." Examining Religions: Islam, written by Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood. Heinemann Educational, 2008.

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It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

On seeing a Union charge repulsed by the Confederate army.

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Lee, Robert E. Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg. Battle of Fredericksburg. 13 Dec. 1862, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.

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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

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Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

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I won't have cowards in my army.

General George S. Patton Jr.

Patton

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Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

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Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to William H. Herndon. 15 Feb. 1848.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "To William H. Herndon, Febrary 15, 1848." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, but for how well we can endure loneliness.

Out of Africa

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Out of Africa. Directed by Sydney Pollack, Mirage Enterprises, 1985.

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We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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

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

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