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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.