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"War hath no fury like a non-combatant." -- British journalist Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928), Disenchantment, 1922
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"The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth." -- Danish critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927), letter to French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, 1915
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"Is there any man here, or any woman -- let me say, is there any child -- who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?" - President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), speech in St. Louis, September 5, 1919
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"The painful paradox is that fighting for one's country can render one unfit to be its citizen.... War changes you... strips you of all your beliefs, your religion, takes your dignity away, you become an animal." -- Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Traumas and the Undoing of Character
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"Military justice is to justice as military music is to music." -- witty French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
(Haught is editor emeritus of West Virginia's largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail. This is the final chapter of his 11th book, Hurrah for Liberals.)
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