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Your Quotes for 11 December 2005 - War

It was on this day in 1941 that Benito Mussolini addressed a crowd in Rome's Plaza Venezia and declared that Italy was at war with the US. Later in the day, Adolf Hitler made a similar declaration to the Reichstag at Berlin. And at Washington City, Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Italy and Germany, a request that was granted without debate and with only one vote against it.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
     - Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
     - Croesus of Lydia, 595 - 547 BC

A great war leaves the country with three armies; an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
     - German proverb

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
     - Stanislaus J. Lec

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
     - Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
     - Ambrose Bierce

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