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Selected Quotations
About War and Peace...
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will
come. Carl
Sandburg
["The People, Yes," stanza
23, line 23, The Complete Poems of Carl
Sandburg, rev. and expanded ed., p. 464
(1970).
Older men declare war. But it is youth that
must fight and die. And it is youth who must
inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the
triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover
[Address to the 23d
Republican national convention, Chicago, Illinois,
June 27, 1944. -- Official Report of the
Proceedings of the Twenty-third Republican National
Convention, p. 166 (1944).]
In order for a war to be just, three things
are necessary. First, the authority of the
Sovereign
. Secondly, a just cause
.
Thirdly
a rightful intention.
St. Thomas Aquinas
[Summa Theologica,
part II-II, question 40, article I. Written
1266-1273.]
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