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Famous quotes containing the words wars, fourth and/or war:

    “Before now poetry has taken notice
    Of wars, and what are wars but politics
    Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Deuteronomy, 6:15.

    The words are also found in Exodus 20:5, referring to the second commandment: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image ... for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”

    “... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)