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title: "8 Wars Civil Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-schama/taxation-the-very-thing-that-had-triggered-the-british-civil-wars/)

[Simon Schama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-schama/)

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> [All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-fenelon/all-wars-are-civil-ones-for-it-is-still-man-spilling-his-own-blood/)

[Francois Fenelon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-fenelon/)

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> [We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-scheuer/we-ve-gone-thorough-religious-wars-and-civil-wars-america-has-gone/)

[Michael Scheuer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-scheuer/)

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> [“The collapse of order brings in its wake the four horsemen of the apocalypse - famine, war, pestilence, and death. Population declines,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-turchin/the-collapse-of-order-brings-in-its-wake-the-four-horsemen-of-the/)

[Peter Turchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-turchin/)

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> [All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/all-wars-are-civil-wars-because-all-men-are-brothers-each-one-owes/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-stevenson/the-human-race-is-a-family-men-are-brothers-all-wars-are-civil-wars/)

[Adlai Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-stevenson/)

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> [All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-fenelon/all-wars-are-civil-wars-because-all-men-are-brothers/)

[Francois Fenelon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-fenelon/)

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> [“The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/the-only-wars-here-will-be-civil-wars-and-those-are-like-killing-your/)

[Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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