Refinement Series
War
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Collected War
Latest AdditionsFortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.— Julius Caesar
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.— John Wooden
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.— John F. Kennedy
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There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.— John F. Kennedy
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.— John F. Kennedy
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.— Jane Goodall
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.— James Madison
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.— James Madison
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.— James Madison
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.— James Baldwin
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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