Top 100 Wage War Quotes

#1. A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.

William J. Clinton

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#2. Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Aristotle.

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#3. War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

George S. Patton

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#4. Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

Marie-Antoine Careme

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#5. Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Jennifer Armintrout

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#6. We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#7. I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills, fracking, tar sands and the oil madness of our empire continue, people are waking up and realizing that you can't be against petroleum and against fuels that come from nature.

Josh Tickell

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#8. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Rachel Carson

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#9. Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

Virgil

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#10. Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

Ron Paul

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#11. Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

Omar N. Bradley

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#12. I hate mankind. I hate what we do to each other, how we wage war, how we 'fight' for peace, how we say we love each other then stab each other in the back.

L.V. Birdsong

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#13. I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Daniel H. Wilson

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#14. As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists."

Bobby Jindal

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#15. I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Nicolas Sarkozy

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#16. When adults wage war, children perish.

Elie Wiesel

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#17. When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

Erik Erikson

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#18. You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Jodie Evans

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#19. Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

Robert Frost

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#20. This law ... defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

Daniel Quinn

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#21. One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

Ignatius Of Loyola

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#22. Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

David D. Burns

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#23. One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Douglas MacArthur

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#24. They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

Ed Gillespie

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#25. Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

Barbara Lee

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#26. We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Paul Hoffman

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#27. people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit? I

Haruki Murakami

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#28. Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception ... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium ... Photograph and be photographed.

Alexander Rodchenko

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#29. A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

Elie Wiesel

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#30. Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

George Pataki

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#31. Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

Scott Westerfeld

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#32. Wage war against the weaker thoughts that have crept into the palace of your mind. They will see that they are unwanted and leave like unwelcome visitors.

Robin S. Sharma

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#33. I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

Tahereh Mafi

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#34. Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran

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#35. The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

George Orwell

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#36. So, if they hold aloof from you and wage not war against you and offer you peace, Allah alloweth you no way against them" (Qur'an 4:90).

Denise A. Spellberg

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#37. The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

Kent Conrad

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#38. The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

Christian Lous Lange

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#39. Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

Dan B. Allender

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#40. President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

David Letterman

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#41. We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

Jalal Talabani

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#42. Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?

Haruki Murakami

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#43. Human beings had invented war, invented and manufactured the weapons, even invented the players, the fighters, the actors of the war. But they themselves could not venture forth, could not wage it themselves.

Philip K. Dick

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#44. We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.

Dalai Lama

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#45. To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

Carly Fiorina

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#46. I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

Jacqueline Winspear

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#47. If you would make war,' he would say to to General d'Hedouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.

Andrew Roberts

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#48. Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

Narendra Modi

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#49. What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Terry Jones

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#50. If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.

Socrates

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#51. Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.

Bill Keller

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#52. I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

Shinzo Abe

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#53. Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

David Lloyd George

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#54. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

Beth Moore

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#55. To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

H.L. Mencken

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#56. The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

Basil O'Connor

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#57. isn't the men who declare war who have to wage it. Only those of us who live in the field truly understand the realities of power.

Robin Parrish

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#58. Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Dejan Stojanovic

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#59. Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.

Emil Ludwig

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#60. All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.

Agnivesh

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#61. Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.

Charles Duhigg

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#62. The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

Derek R. Audette

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#63. You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war (James 4:1, 2).

Richard J. Foster

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#64. The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

U Thant

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#65. When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Garrison Keillor

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#66. On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

Jules Verne

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#67. I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

Ed Koch

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#68. There was a time when I didn't at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

Albert Camus

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#69. Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

Laozi

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#70. Intestine war no more our passions wage,
And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Alexander Pope

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#71. All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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#72. A great country cannot wage a little war.

Duke Of Wellington

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#73. Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

Oswald Spengler

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#74. One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.

Robert F. Hartley

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#75. Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

Ludwig Von Mises

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#76. You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#77. The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything - on terrorism, drugs, even poverty - has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

Glenn Greenwald

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#78. Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.

James Carriger Paine

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#79. War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

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#80. Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.

Jon Stewart

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#81. The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

Richard Armitage

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#82. Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

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#83. My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Georges Clemenceau

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#84. If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

Zoroaster

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#85. Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.

Sun Tzu

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#86. We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential ... the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising ... Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself ...

Al Gore

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#87. Through touch, God gave us the power to injure or to heal, to wage war or to wash feet. Let us not forget the gravity of that. Let us not forget the call.

Rachel Held Evans

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#88. Ludicrous concepts ... like the whole idea of a war on terrorism. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?

Terry Jones

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#89. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#90. Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

Bernie Sanders

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#91. So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.

John F. Kennedy

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#92. I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!

Adolf Hitler

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#93. The news did not trouble her particularly; all news was bad, like wage demands, strikes, or war, and the wise person paid no attention to it. What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; her first narcissi were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds.

Nevil Shute

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#94. It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

Sholom Aleichem

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#95. For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South ...

Arthur Fremantle

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#96. What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Winston Churchill

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#97. I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

Jesse Ventura

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#98. Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#99. From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace ... War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated-ever.

Elie Wiesel

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#100. Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Adolf Hitler

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