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Letter "L" » Long War
«Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.»
Author: Loren Eiseley
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«Make no mistake: The anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent»
«I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.»
Author: Anne Frank
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Author)
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About:
Politicians,
War
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World War I
«Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.»
«So long as there are men there will be wars»
«It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to weaken truth, and serve only to make it stronger. All the lights of truth are powerless to stop violence, and serve only»
«Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power»
Author: George Washington
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President)
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About:
Justice,
Self-respect
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Keywords:
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«As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
War
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«A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace»
«Believing that happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author,
President)
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