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New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

Herman Kahn

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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Our Cuba policy didn’t make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Stephen M. Walt

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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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We’re going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now – it’s almost an ultimate in absurdity.

Clark M. Clifford

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If a war be undertaken… before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

Charles Eliot Norton

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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

Neville Chamberlain

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They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, ‘I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.’

Howard K. Smith

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