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"There never was a good war or a bad peace." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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"Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that we must begin to erect the ramparts of peace." -- UNESCO charter
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"Ez for war, I call it murder / There you have it, plain and flat / I don't want to go no furder / Than my testyment for that." -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
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"My enemy is dead, a man divine as myself." -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
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"Wars are not 'acts of God.' They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change." -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (1890-1953)
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"We cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), dedicating the Civil War battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, 1863
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"There are few die well that die in a battle." -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Henry V
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"Doughboys were paid a whole dollar a day / and received free burial under the clay / And movie heroes are paid even more / shooting one another in a Hollywood war." -- American poet and Liberal Club member Alfred Kreymborg (1883-1966), What Price Glory?
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