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The war won't ever be over... too damn profitable, do you get me? Back home they're coining money, the British are coining money; ...

John Dos Passos

profit | capitalism

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Still, I'm much happier here, really in it than I've been for an age. People don't hate much at the front; there's no one to hate, ...

John Dos Passos

war | soldiers | propaganda

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Custer's dead and around the bloody guidon of the immortal Seventh Cavalry lie 212 officers of the main. Sioux and Cheyenne are on ...

Frank S. Nugent

history | Old West, the | Native Americans

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In the Second World War approximately the same European allies fought approximately the same adversaries as in the first. Though t ...

A.J.P. Taylor

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Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal ... of education and had recommended it to his tribe. His argument in its favor was, that if you had been to college and learnt to calculate, you could "keep 'um property,--no other way." He said that his boy was the best scholar in the school at Oldtown, to which he went with whites. He himself is a Protestant, and goes to church regularly at Oldtown. According to his account, a good many of his tribe are Protestants, and many of the Catholics also are in favor of schools. Some years ago they had a schoolmaster, a Protestant, whom they liked very well. The priest came and said that they must send him away, and finally he had such influence, telling them that they would go to the bad place at last if they retained him, that they sent him away. The school party, though numerous, were about giving up. Bishop Fenwick came from Boston and used his influence against them. But our Indian told his side that they must not give up, must hold on, they were the strongest. If they gave up, then they would have no party. But they answered that it was "no use, priest too strong, we'd better give up." At length he persuaded them to make a stand.
The priest was going for a sign to cut down the liberty-pole. So Polis and his party had a secret meeting about it; he got ready fifteen or twenty stout young men, "stript 'um naked, and painted 'um like old times," and told them that when the priest and his party went to cut down the liberty-pole, they were to rush up, take hold of it, and prevent them, and he assured them that there would be no war, only noise,--"no war where priest is." He kept his men concealed in a house near by, and when the priest's party were about to cut down the liberty-pole, the fall of which would have been a death-blow to the school party, he gave a signal, and his young men rushed out and seized the pole. There was a great uproar, and they were about coming to blows, but the priest interfered, saying, "No war, no war," and so the pole stands, and the school goes on still.
We thought that it showed a good deal of tact in him, to seize the occasion and take his stand on it; proving how well he understood those with whom he had to deal.

Henry David Thoreau

education | clergy | intolerance, religious

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Morality is contraband in war.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

war

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judgin ...

Mohandas K. Gandhi

war and peace

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Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest ligh ...

Frank S. Nugent

Native Americans | war

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I don't see what for French Canadians to go to defend a bunch of Poles. I don't get that at all. I don't see what they mean to us. ...

Emeric Pressburger

governments | war

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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

war

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