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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. ↗

— Elihu Root

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In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. ↗

— Elihu Root

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It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie? ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

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