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“War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

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“It wasn’t so easy, though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“it was easier to start a war than to end one.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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“There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“that war is just which is necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope but in them.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war, and to end it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

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“In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, to reap the harvest of perpetual peace by this one bloody trial of sharp war.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

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“it awakened in us a strong, practical sense of esprit de corps, which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war — comradeship.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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