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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobb

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. – Thomas Hobbes

Other quotes by Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. – Thomas Hobbes

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Thomas Hobbes
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. – Thomas Hobbes

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War
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway

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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. – William Westmoreland

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If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say “no” to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. – Louis Lecoin

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Im blessed with a good pair of ears. Thats how I fooled my piano teacher. Id watch his fingers and Id listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself. – Eddie Van Halen

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