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“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”
— Charles Francis Adams Sr., Despatch to Earl Russell at a period of diplomatic tension between the US and Britain during the American Civil War (September 5, 1863); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365
“All free men remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address.
“Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.”
— Immanuel Kant, as quoted in Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: An Anthology of Classical and Modern Sources (1987) by Howard P. Kainz, p. 81
“I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.”
— Richard Nixon, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger (March 8, 1971), in The New York Times (March 10, 1971), p. 14.
“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.”
— Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.
“The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition.”
— Simeon Weisz, Lord of War.

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