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Tocqueville on War

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”

Others on War

Thomas Hobbes

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“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”

Will Rogers

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“you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way”

Ludwig von Mises

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“Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.”

Niccolò Machiavelli

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“... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...”

Erasmus

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“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”

Herodotus

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“In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.”

Tacitus

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“A bad peace is worse than war.”

General Douglas MacArthur

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“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.”

Eisenhower

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“In war there is no substitute for victory.”

George Orwell

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“...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”

Joe Abercrombie

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“Those with the least always lose the most in war.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

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“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”

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