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There are two things which a democratic people will always find ve

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. – James Frederick Green

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

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