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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -
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War & Peace
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Top 5 quotes from George Orwell
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Top 5 quotes from War & Peace
"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
"Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal."
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"
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