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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

If they’re in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners – they’re murderers, they’re terrorists, they’re insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we’re so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?