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Quotes about war
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I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares. (Cruise Tom)
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. (Cruise Tom)
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Cruise Tom)
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason. (Cruise Tom)
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. (Cruise Tom)
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. (Cruise Tom)
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. (Cruise Tom)
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. (Cruise Tom)
We are muddled into war. (Cruise Tom)
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. (Cruise Tom)
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. (Cruise Tom)
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. (Cruise Tom)
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (Cruise Tom)
Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow. (Cruise Tom)
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. (Cruise Tom)
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. (Cruise Tom)
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. (Cruise Tom)
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations. (Cruise Tom)
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him. (Cruise Tom)
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. (Cruise Tom)
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. (Cruise Tom)
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. (Cruise Tom)
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. (Cruise Tom)
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. (Cruise Tom)
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! (Cruise Tom)
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