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    I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

by Ulysses S. Grant Found in: War Quotes,
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You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by read more

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God —' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.'

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Found in: War Quotes,
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If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would read more

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

by Louis Lecoin Found in: Ideals Quotes, War Quotes,
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

by Colonel Samuel Prescott Found in: War Quotes,
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I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

by Georges Clemenceau Found in: War Quotes,
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The real war will never get in the books.

The real war will never get in the books.

by Walt Whitman Found in: War Quotes,
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Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of read more

Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of
the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending
German influence all the world over.

by Unattributed Author Found in: War Quotes,
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The next World War will be fought with stones.

The next World War will be fought with stones.

by Albert Einstein Found in: War Quotes,
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so read more

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

by Thomas A. Edison Found in: War Quotes,
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