It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy. Woodrow Wilson
War is what happens when language fails.
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Margaret Atwood
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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Ernest Hemingway
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Leo Tolstoy
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Woodrow Wilson
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if...
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
