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[Lee Loe]

"War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It
degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that
'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred
thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking
stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible
murder." : Alexander Berkman
 
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"It seems that 'we have never gone to war for conquest, for exploitation,
nor for territory'; we have the word of a president [McKinley] for that.
Observe, now, how Providence overrules the intentions of the truly good for
their advantage. We went to war with Mexico for peace, humanity and honor,
yet emerged from the contest with an extension of territory beyond the
dreams of political avarice. We went to war with Spain for relief of an
oppressed people [the Cubans], and at the close found ourselves in
possession of vast and rich insular dependencies [primarily the Philippines]
and with a pretty tight grasp upon the country for relief of whose oppressed
people we took up arms. We could hardly have profited more had 'territorial
aggrandizement' been the spirit of our purpose and heart of our hope. The
slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the
most warlike and unscrupulous of nations." : Ambrose Bierce, Warlike America

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"In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes,
a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare
that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to
carry on taxes." Thomas Paine
 
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government
owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To
destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between
corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship
of the day": Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906 
 
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"The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the
irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the
liberty of appearing": Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791 
 

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