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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
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.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a read more
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.
All quiet along the Potomac they say
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot as read more
All quiet along the Potomac they say
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,
By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.