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Quote by Edmund Burke
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee

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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. – Bertrand Russell, attributed

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And Im a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. Thats the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. – Shelby Foote

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Were fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. Its a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world. – Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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