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War Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
- The more laws, the less justice.
- An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
- The sinews of war are infinite money.
- Laws are silent in time of war.
- Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
- After victory, you have more enemies.
- The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
- Laws are inoperative in war
- I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
- I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom…
- Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.
- Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
- War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
- For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.
- In time of war the laws are silent.
- Endless money forms the sinews of war.
- The law is silent during war
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