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There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. -- Victor Hugo
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. -- Charles XII of Sweden
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. -- John Ruskin
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. -- Benjamin Franklin
I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war. -- Mike Hoffman
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored. -- Paul Begala
Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could. -- Kurt Vonnegut
When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution. -- T. S. Eliot
I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders. -- Fatima Bhutto
All government wars are unjust. -- Murray Rothbard
An unjust peace is better than a just war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's. -- Hanoi Hannah
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. -- Leo Tolstoy
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side. -- Bob Riley
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic. -- Michael Specter
Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War. -- Jackson Katz
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior -- Desiderius Erasmus

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