Quote by Thomas Jefferson
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actu

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. – Thomas Jefferson

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We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans. – Dennis Chavez

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When the rich wage war, its the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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I mean, were going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as Im alive. – Paul Wolfowitz

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Nothing is more useless in developing a nations economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. – King Hussein I

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