For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”
— John Milton · War
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”
— John Milton · War
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“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”
“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all”
“How charming is divine Philosophy!”
“No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.”
“When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about.”
“The journey has been long, fleeing a war, living in a refugee camp, coming to Canada is what we were dreaming as a family to get here. Now that we're here I'm excited that I'm a Canadian citizen.”
“I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.”
“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”
“With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.”
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”