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“What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!”

World Years Long War Done Lasts Lost Causes Women Ten Mark Destructive Betray Ashes Capitol Deceitful Antony

Book:The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes

“When war is raging the laws are dumb.”

War Law Rage Dumb

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.”

War Waiting Thousand Sight Fruit Bitter Wrath Fury

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!”

Men Way Firsts War Spirit Teach He Man Flesh Bites Steel Woe Cursed

Author:Edmund Spenser

“The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.”

World Looks War Wonder Regard Engaged Look Up Comparison Bottles Unworthy Glowing Astronomers Trifling

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.”

War States Reason Age Lasts Games Names Nations Regret Hero Stones Raises Dear Debt Decay Everlasting Medal Rust Wreaths

Book:The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

Source: The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

“All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.”

Thinking World Giving Trying May War Ends Country Liberty Greater Rights Danger Ready Ideals Bills Lips Civil Rights Amendments Stirring Civil Liberties Bill Of Rights Avert Lip Service

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.”

World Children Littles Made War Seems Might Able Peace Progress Praying Promise Stupidity Repetition Crawling

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.”

People Ifs Thinking War Might Chance Morning Wake Up Scared Bombs Preventing Atomic Bomb Preventing War

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.”

Humans War Reality Young Suffering Literature Loss Race Reader Destruction Plant Hunger Seeds Neglect Harsh Stubborn Famine Children's Literature Harsh Reality

Book:Read for Your Life #21

Source: Read for Your Life #21

“Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.”

Men Mind War Language Groups Disease Weapons Territory Slogans Epidemics Susceptible Infectious Diseases

Author:Arthur Koestler

“the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.”

War States United United States Issues Citizens Concern Affair Experts Foreign Affairs

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.”

People Firsts War Games Hurt Harder Strikes Thug Hurting People

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.”

War Fool Pursue Toil

Author:William Shenstone

“Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.”

Knows War Law Democratic Peaceful Bombs Gravity Nuclear Weapons Interfere Barbarism Democratic Society Isms Militarism

Book:European spring

Source: European spring

“All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.”

Stills War Nations Ancient Plague Aftermath Landmarks Hold Fast

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.”

World Want Firsts Heart War Fighting Blessed Islam Eras Islamic Bless Historic Muslim World Battleground

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!”

War Century Greatness Revolution Genius France Decline Renewal

Book:War Memoirs: Salvation, 1944-1946. Translated from the French by R. Howard

Source: War Memoirs: Salvation, 1944-1946. Translated from the French by R. Howard

“We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.”

Ifs World Firsts War America United States Democracy Safe Overbearing

Author:Emma Goldman

“A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.”

War

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

“Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.”

Made War Millions Atheist France Witch

Book:The works of George Herbert

Source: The works of George Herbert

“Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.”

War Thee

Book:The works of George Herbert

Source: The works of George Herbert

“if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.”

Ifs War Death Dying Watchers

Book:A Diary Without Dates

Source: A Diary Without Dates

“We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.”

World Mean War Sides Differences Violence Conflict Both Sides Renounce

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.”

War States Evil Clear Crime Honor Morality Army Nevertheless Shrinks Courtesy Morality And Religion

Author:Robert Southey

“What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.”

Should May Said War Ends Whole Care Remember Delight Pursuit Controversy Hares Sportsman

Author:Alexander Pope

“Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.”

War Waste

Author:John Milton

“War ought to be no man's wish.”

Men War Wish Ought

Book:Collected Writings

Source: Collected Writings

“Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.”

Way War Havens Sorrow Gun Brave Weary

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.”

War Race Talking Suicide Where You Are Contests

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

“Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.”

World War Results Struggle Concepts War Of The Worlds Engaged Germany Empires World War Ii World War I

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“I know of nothing more exciting than war.”

Knows War Exciting

Author:Moshe Dayan

“Don't go looking for trouble.”

War Trouble

Author:Aesop

“Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.”

War Teacher Experience

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.”

War Religion Christ Ill Good Will Christendom Ill Will

Book:Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations

Source: Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations

“Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.”

Littles War Play Earth Values Loses Kings Creatures Soldier Republic

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession is war, understands that peace must be enforced by superior military might. The certainty of defeat is the only effective deterrent we can use to maintain peace. Furthermore, we can be strong without being aggressive.”

War Use Might Political Strong Military Defeat Soldier Population Profession Superiors Certainty Aggressive Rulers Civilians Deterrent

Author:Barry Goldwater

“Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.”

Men Children War Home Grows Waiting Growing Up Birth Coming Home Menopause

Author:Adrienne Rich

“The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.”

Heart War Grief Race Class Generations Wall Citizens Holes Vietnam Memorial Monument Vietnam War Magnet

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.”

War Possibility Direct Increase Instruments Proportion Effectiveness

Book:Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

“If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.”

Ifs War Play Sex Conscientious Objectors

Book:Braided Lives

Source: Braided Lives

“A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.”

War Certain Security Degrees Preparation Continuance

Book:The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819

“I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?”

People Long Has Beens War Asks Taken Vietnam Savages Vietnam War Bombing

Book:Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: September 1972-March 1977

Source: Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: September 1972-March 1977

“Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.”

Ifs War Evil Wish Rewards Inevitable Merit Civil War

Book:The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal

“If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.”

Ifs World Firsts War Would Be Christ Arms Soldier No War Opportunist Martyred

Book:Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963

Source: Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963

“All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?”

People Ifs War Enough Would Be Fighting Sacred Foolish

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.”

War Peace Makers Disruptive

Book:They Call Us Dead Men: Reflections on Life and Conscience

Source: They Call Us Dead Men: Reflections on Life and Conscience

“Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.”

War Sometimes Blood Trade Shed

Book:In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

“The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.”

War States Government Would Be United United States Authority Accountability Strict Naval

Book:A Day of Dedication

Source: A Day of Dedication

“In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.”

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