Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money
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Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war, and more worthy of relation than any that had proceeded it.
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
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It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster to discuss the matter.
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It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it, the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.
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That war is an evil is a proposition so familiar to everyone that it would be tedious to develop it.
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The Spartans meanwhile, man to man, and with their war songs in the ranks, exhorted each brave comrade to remember what he had learned before; well aware that the long training of action was of more use for saving lives than any brief verbal exhortation, though ever so well delivered.
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But what most oppressed them was that they had two wars at once, and has thus reached a pitch of frenzy which no one would have believed possible if he had heard of it before it had come to pass.
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