"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
― Edmund Burke
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War
― Edmund Burke
More From Edmund Burke
- "People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
- "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
- "Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."
More In War
- "We didn’t start this war – the right wing did. We’re tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it’s about jobs and it’s about rebuilding America."― James P. Hoffa
- "War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."― William Tecumseh Sherman
- "Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat."― Ron Paul