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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

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Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

Winston Churchill

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

George Washington

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The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Malala Yousafzai

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Thucydides

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

H. L. Mencken

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I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no.

Khabib Nurmagomedov

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All oppression creates a state of war.

Simone de Beauvoir

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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

John Doolittle

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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

Charles B. Rangel

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It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

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When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.

Michael Korda

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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

Virginia Postrel

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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

Chelsea Clinton

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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Paul Valery

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To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

Ewa Kopacz

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