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Social and Political quotes
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." Voltaire
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"The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War." Mark Twain
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"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself." James Anthony Froude
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"They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Isaiah, Bible
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"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War." George Washington, 1793, address to Congress.
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"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." George Washington, 1790, address to Congress.
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"In politics, it's not what you are that counts, it's what people think you are that counts." Joseph P. Kennedy
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"The truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places."--Fredrick Douglas
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