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• If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
  -- Cardinal de Richelieu...
• I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war.
  It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men....
• There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Letter to Cardinal de Bernis, April 23, 1761...
• There is one God, but which one is He?
• Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient.
  It is largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce....
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that Nothing is worth war is much worse....
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that Nothing is worth war is much worse....
• Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
  -- Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873) -- Richelieu, Act ii, Sc. 2...
• A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip.