6 Quotes by Will Durant about war



  • Author Will Durant
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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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