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War Quotes by Voltaire
- It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
- To hold a pen is to be at war.
- To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
- Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
- It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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