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Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

People like to talk about war.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

War is the last refuge of the incompetent.