Quote by Will Rogers
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. – Will Rogers

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This depression was deep, and you dont climb out of anything as quick as you fall in. – Will Rogers

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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why dont they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. – Will Rogers

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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism. – Jack Kemp

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. – Victor Hugo

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. – Karl Kraus

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People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. Theyre also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time. – Hamid Karzai

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