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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison

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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. – James Madison

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War is a contagion. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. – Barry Goldwater

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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. – Hans A. Bethe

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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. – Jefferson Davis

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