“There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..”
Source: Gone with the Wind
“In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so hopeless.”
Address to Congress (1945)
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"Iraq and the Roots of War," California Freedom (June 2007).
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Source: The Life of Poetry