The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have

The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. – Robert E. Lee

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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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The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop

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War is the trade of Kings. – John Dryden

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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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