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• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. — Herbert V. Prochnow
• Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can… — Alfred Nobel
• An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — H. L. Mencken
• [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison
• As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — James Madison
• I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the… — Jean Chretien
• Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to… — William Wilberforce
• The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws… — Edward Everett
• The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. — Naguib Mahfouz
• Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson

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