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‟ The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
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‟ It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
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‟ As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
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‟ As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
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‟ The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
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‟ The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
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‟ Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
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‟ Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
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