Dwight D. Eisenhower - About war - 160838

"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.“

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

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