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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted h

One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, Wars glorious art, and gives immortal fame. – Edward Young

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. – Edward Young

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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss. – Edward Young

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. – Immanuel Kant

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. – Francis Meehan

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Theres nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we dont go to war so carelessly. – Ron Paul

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