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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country’s war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.

War

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

War

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn’t be any press without the censorship.

War

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

War

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

War

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

War

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

War