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"Peace Is Achieved Through War"

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  1. George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" has the Newspeak phrase 'War is Peace.'

    Aristotle (384-322 BC): "We make war that we may live in peace." – 'Nicomachean Ethics,' bk X, ch 7

    Vegetius (around 375): "Let him who desires peace prepare for war." – De Re Militari, III, prologue

    Robert Burton (1577-1640): "The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: 'Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.' " – 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'

    Fénelon (1651-1715): "To be always ready for war, said Mentor, is the surest way to avoid it." – Télémachus, bk X

    George Washington (1732-1799): "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace." – First Annual Address, 1790

    James Russell Lowell (1819-1891):

       "Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du

       Is jes' to show you're up to fighting, tu."

    H. G. Wells (1866-1946): "The War That Will End War" – book title and a populist description of World War I.

    The Pax Romana and the Pax Britannica were achieved through conquests and the establishments of the Roman and British Empires.  

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