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“Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.”

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Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and entrepreneur, known as the 'Wizard of Menlo Park' and the 'Inventor of the Age.' He held over 1,000 patents, including the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and electrical power system. Edison made significant contributions to the fields of electricity, chemistry, and mechanical engineering, profoundly impacting modern industrial and technological development. more

“It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice.”

People Has Beens Different War Country Use Political Nations Justice Roles Happened Materials Committed Technological Preparing Atrocities Defenseless Atrocities Committed

Author:Ramsey Clark

“During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”

I Can War Ought Late Occasions Britain Reverse Deceived Infallible Great Britain Every Occasion

Book:The Quotable Jefferson

Source: The Quotable Jefferson

“The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.”

World War Political Nations Powerful Enemy Red Seeking China War Of The Worlds Wrong Time

Author:Omar N. Bradley

“The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.”

World Way Giving War Use Lasts Political Order Nations United Violence Truth Is Conflict Gains Decades Awful Eras Civilized Founders United Nations Relentless New Era

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“I detest war; it ruins conversation”

War Political Conversation Ruins Detest

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.”

War Political

Book:1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy

Source: 1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy

“All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.”

Has Beens War Political Half Weak Engaged Combat Mexico Elsewhere Spain Foe Hearted Lynching Half Hearted

Book:Prejudices: Third Series

Source: Prejudices: Third Series

“One insult pocketed soon produces another.”

War Political Produce Insult

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

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