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"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."	Virtue
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."	War & Peace
"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."	War & Peace
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."	War & Peace
"War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will."	War & Peace
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."	War & Peace
"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."	Work

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