6 Quotes by Will Durant about war
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When those who must do the fighting have the right to decide between war and peace, history will no longer be written in blood.
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War does one good—it teaches people geography.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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