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In every state, the freedom of its members depends on the balance and adjustment of its interior parts; and the existence of any such freedom among mankind, depends on the balance of nations. In the progress of conquest, those who are subdued are said to have lost their liberties; but from the history of mankind, to conquer, or to be conquered, has appeared, in effect, the same.
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It takes two to make a peace but only one to make a war.
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I have sometimes been a soldier, because I was born in an enslaved country, but always with repugnance, being convinced that it is a crime that men should have to butcher each other in order to reach an agreement.
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...extensive conquests, when pursued, must be the ruin of every free government; and of the more perfect governments sooner than the imperfect; because of the very advantages which the former possess above the latter. And though such a state ought to establish a fundamental law against conquests; yet republics have ambition as well as individuals, and present interest makes men forgetful of their posterity.
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I suspect it is the same in all wars — always the same contrast between the sleek police in the rear and the ragged soldiers in the line.
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The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. If war does not give the conqueror the right to massacre the conquered peoples, the right to enthralled them cannot be based upon a right which does not exist.
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Much has been said and written about the causes of the war; and it is inevitable that the immediate causes (for they alone are discussed) should be thoroughly investigated. But the deeper underlying causes of the recent war, and of every war, are not those upon which diplomatists and politicians and journalists and historians are intent: they must be sought in that callous and selfish habit of mind—common to all races, and as such accepted without thought, and transmitted from one generation to another—which exhibits itself not in war only, but in numerous other forms of barbarity observed in so-called civilized life.
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The men are all converted into warslaves, and have from day to day to expect orders to go to kill and to be killed.
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Nay, it was a question only of determining to whom a certain field belonged; it is the subject of all wars.
Chronology :
April 09, 2020 : Domination -- Added.
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