“Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.”

—  Rutherford B. Hayes

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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

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