"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
-Thomas Hobbes
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"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.“
-Thomas Hobbes
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"War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known."
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
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"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man."
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"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
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"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
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"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."
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"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
-George J. Mitchell
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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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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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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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