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An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.

— Daniel Morgan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

— Alexander Berkman

What is more immoral than war?

— Marquis de Sade

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

— Thomas Aquinas

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

— Scott Nearing

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

— U Thant

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

— Ezra Stiles

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

— Charles Mackay

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

— George S. Patton

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