“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Letter to Josiah Quincy (11 September 1783).
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“Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad…”
— Gabrielle Roy, book The Tin Flute
Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 313
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