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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy w

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. – Washington Irving

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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. – Washington Irving

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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. – Washington Irving

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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last nights Democratic debate. – Jay Leno

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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? Its a delusion to think its gone away. – Kevin Costner

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure. – Abraham Lincoln

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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. – Tony Blair

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