To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.”
Book Three, Chapter XXII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
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French political thinker and historian 1805–1859Related quotes
Appearing on Hannity and Colmes http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002129.php (12 December, 2006̠)
2000s
“In the end, in every war,
whoever won, the people always lost.”
"Oh Stone" (Cambodia, 1989)
Distant Road (1999)
“Human religion is always like this: it begins by serving God and it ends by killing people.”
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“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his own Life (1696)
Context: The Occasion of that Assembly was this; The Parliament which then was, (or the prevailing part of them,) were ingaged in a War with the King.... The Issue of which War, proved very different from what was said to be at first intended. As is usual in such cases; the power of the sword frequently passing from hand to hand and those who begin a War, not being able to foresee where it wil end.<!--pp. cliii-cliv
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