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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. – James Madison

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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. – James Madison

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They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all. – Lt. Clair J. Clark, letter to wife, March 1944

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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. – Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War, 1948

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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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