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" War is a blessing compared with national degradation. "

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" A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. "

Winston Churchill

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Charles Lindbergh

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" In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. "

" An army marches on its stomach. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. "

" War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. "

George Washington

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" I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. "

Ernest Hemingway

" The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster. "

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Winston Churchill

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John Hickenlooper

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