Robert E. Lee | war
The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
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Harry S. Truman | war
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
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Herbert Hoover | war
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
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Otto von Bismarck | war
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Immanuel Kant | war
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’
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Red Auerbach | war
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
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James Madison | war
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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Colin Powell | war
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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