How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

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Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.- Colin Powell

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The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

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My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

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It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

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