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Thomas Paine1737–1809

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Thomas Paine on war and peace

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
As quoted in The Crisis No. IV (12 September 1777)
- Freedom
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
First Principles of Government (1795)
- Liberty
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
“The Crisis” (written 19 December 1776, published 23 December 1776), no. 1, in Moncure D. Conway, ed., The Writings of Thomas Paine (1894), vol. 1, p. 170.
- Success

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.
- Liberty
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)
- Guns
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton1885–1945

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