Quote by Jefferson Davis
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. – Jefferson Davis

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War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. – William Cowper

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I want to start my own airplane business. Im going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem – you know, where the old paratroopers used to go – and charge them about 20 quid a time. – Gary Numan

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. – George Orwell

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It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him. – Baudouin I

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