“Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.”
Walker Percy book The Second Coming
The Second Coming (1980)
“It is easier to make war than make peace.”
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix.
"Discours de Paix" [Speech on Peace] Verdun (20 July 1919)
Prime Minister
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