Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Accursed be he that first invented war.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
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.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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