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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

—Thomas Mann

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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

—Solomon Short

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

—Winston Churchill

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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

—Winston Churchill

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I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

—Robert E. Lee

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

—Omar Bradley

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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

—Mao Tse-Tung

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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

—John Stuart Mill

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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

—Jeannette Rankin

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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

—Georges Clemenceau

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

—Georges Clemenceau

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

—George Orwell

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