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Lester Pearson, fully Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Louis N. Parker, fully Louis Napoleon Parker
War is never a solution - war is an aggravation.
Robert Oppenheimer, fully Julius Robert Oppenheimer
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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No international Eighteenth Amendment will get rid of war or the instruments of war until civilization finds a way for accomplishing what war has done in the past. Simply to prohibit war is not going to get rid of it. Wars must be anticipated and the causes got rid of by a readiness to accept peaceful means of settlement.
Throughout history there has never been an evitable war. The greatest danger of war always lies in the widespread acceptance of its inevitability.
In war and affairs of state, many things seem to be just and reasonable at first sight; yet nothing of the kind ought to be finally decided without pondering in a hundred different lights.