"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.“
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"In time of war the laws are silent."
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
-Eric Burdon
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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