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War Quotes by Mark Twain
- I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
- Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.
- Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing…
- If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.…
- All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if…
- A wanton waste of projectiles.
- An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.
- Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding…
- War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the…
- And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest…
- In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.
- A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for…
- There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel,…
- Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to…
- God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
- To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you…
- Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and…
- Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine…
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