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It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.
It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in read more
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
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.
All's fair in love and war.
All's fair in love and war.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.