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“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

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Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”

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Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”

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Book:Poor Russell's almanac

Source: Poor Russell's almanac

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”

“Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.”

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Author:Lillian Wald

“History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.”

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Author:Enoch Powell

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”