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<DIV>"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." : <STRONG>Alexander
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<DIV>=<BR>"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." : <STRONG>Ambrose Bierce</STRONG>, Warlike
America </DIV>
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<DIV>=<BR>"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." <STRONG>Thomas
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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":
<STRONG>Theodore Roosevelt,</STRONG> April 19, 1906 </DIV>
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<DIV>=<BR>"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": <STRONG>Thomas
Paine</STRONG>, Rights of Man, 1791 </DIV>
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