Mark Twain Quotes About Peace
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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.
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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.
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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
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An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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