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War Quotes by Charles Sumner
- War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is…
- War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
- Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
- Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
- Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings…
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