"The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
― Robert E. Lee
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War
More From Robert E. Lee
- "In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength."
- "What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors."
- "The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy."
More In War
- "It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash."― Fred Woodworth
- "War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other."― Paul Valery
- "War is a contagion."― Franklin D. Roosevelt