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Quote by William Cowper
War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. – William Cowper

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. – William Cowper

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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. – Charles Sumner

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Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? – Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979

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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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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. – Anatole France

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