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

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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. – William Cowper

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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. – William Cowper

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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in. – William Cowper

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War is the statesmans game, the priests delight, the lawyers jest, the hired assassins trade. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan

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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Declaration of Rights”

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Ignorance is no excuse, its the real thing. – Irene Peter

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up. – Terri Guillemets

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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heavens wonders. – Louis D. Brandeis

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