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“War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.”

War Peace Poor Sweet Flower Bears Foolish Soil Antiwar Bloody Arrangements Enrichment Sweet Flowers

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.”

War Reason Force Peace Fire Sweet Gun Cease Inches Dictator Syria Jersey New Jersey Lebanon Proxy

Author:William Safire

“The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.”

Firsts Has Beens Made I Can Home Kids America Found Left Peace Known Land Sweet Letting Go Conscience Awake Land Of The Free Can't Let Go

Author:Jackson Browne

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”

Christian Peace Sweet Flower Prove Draws Strongest Touching Honey Bees Abiding Sweetest Wisest

Book:Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations

Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations

“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

“War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.”

War Peace Havens Sweet

Author:Desiderius Erasmus