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wars Quotes

Nine of the best book quotes about wars
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“We are now told by the honorable gentleman (Governor Randolph) that we shall have wars and rumors of wars, that every calamity is to attend us, and that we shall be ruined and disunited forever, unless we adopt this Constitution.”
George Clinton, Robert Yates, Samuel Bryan
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Anti-Federalist papers
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“Maybe nothing was real not even himself . . . wouldn’t that be wonderful.”
Joe Bonham
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“Oh Kareen why do they have a war right now just when we find each other? Kareen we’ve got more important things than war.”
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“I’ve already decided that I like the liberty I’ve got right here the liberty to walk and see and hear and talk and eat and sleep with my girl. I think I like that liberty a lot better than fighting for a lot of things we won’t get and ending up without any liberty at all.”
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“If you tell us to make the world safe for democracy we will take you seriously . . . we will make it so.”
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″‘And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,’ Satan said, ‘sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose--there is no such war in the history of the race.‘”
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“You will, little one. You saved her life, after all. Someday you will find her again. Someday the war will end. All wars do.”
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“But by now every word, every gesture was foreseeable, as all else in that war which had lasted so many years, its every skirmish and duel conducted according to rules so that it was always known beforehand who would win or lose, be heroic or cowardly, be gutted or merely unhorsed and thumped.”
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“Gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”

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