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“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”

Source: The select works of Benjamin Franklin

“The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.”

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Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.”

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Author:Christine de Pizan

“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”

Source: Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time

“When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.”

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Author:Francis Daniels Moore

“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”

“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.”

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Book:THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil

Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”

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Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”

“I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.”

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Author:Sun Tzu