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[Veterans] feel disappointed, not about the 1914-1918 war but about this war. They liked that war, it was a nice war, a real war a regular war, a commenced war and an ended war. It was a war, and veterans like a war to be a war. They do.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author; relocated to France. Wars I Have Seen (1945).
Written in 1943, contrasting World War I with World War II, which was then in progress.)
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
(Benjamin Spock (b. 1903), U.S. pediatrician, author. Times (London, May 2, 1988).)
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
(Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), British author, painter. "The 'Vicious' Circle," ch. 3, The Art of Being Ruled (1926).)
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What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags
But an infection of the common sky
That sagged ominously upon the earth
(Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. Recalling War (l. 11-13). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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It is a war against the pines, the only real Aroostook or Penobscot war.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Chesuncook" (1858) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 142, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
(John Ruskin (1819-1900), British art critic, author. The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture 1 (1866).)
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The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
(Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930), U.S. author. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth, ch. 2 (1919).
Remembering the aftermath of the Civil War. This remark comes from Felton's synopsis of an address she gave in 1900, in Augusta, Georgia, to the Daughters of the Confederacy.)
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Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.
(James Madison (1751-1836), U.S. president. Political observations, April 20, 1775. W.T. Hutchinson et al., The Papers of James Madison, vol. 15, p. 518, Chicago and Charlottesville, Virginia (1962-1991).)
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