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- Tyrants seldom want pretexts. — Edmund Burke
- Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. — Carlo Goldoni
- It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill
- If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba,… — Noam Chomsky
- Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all… — Thomas Merton
- I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on… — Hugo Grotius
- Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood… — Muqtada al Sadr
- Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear,… — Victor Davis Hanson
- What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. — Miguel de Unamuno
- Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging… — James Madison
- It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill