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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

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Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.

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War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

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The best soldiers are not warlike.

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The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

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To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

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If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.

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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity.

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