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In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Advance Affairs Against Am Aspect Blood Bloodshed Course Favor Force Forced Government May Necessity Need Present Say Shed Unless Use Used View War Will I Am

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The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that's left is terror and bloodshed.

~Ayman Odeh

Topics: Afghanistan Afterwards Bloodshed Catastrophe Friends Fundamentalist Happens Iraq Islam Leaders Left Like Movements Name Place Places Regimes Spring Terror Then Up Use

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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Aims Al Bloodshed Conclude Cyberspace Direct Experts Government Instrument Internet Led Signs Skills Some Terrorists Threshold Unsettling Using Qaeda

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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Beauty Bloodshed Could Crime Down Guard Hand He Himself His Laid Like Mar Mountains Nor Oh Shore Spared Swept Those Time Torn Towers Valley War Waves

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Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.

~Bernice King

Topics: Across America Bloodshed Continue Deadly Destruction Distribution Facilitate Federal Form Governments High Mass Mass Destruction Neglect Our Something State State Governments Tolerance Very Weapons Would Wrong

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It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

~Bob Marley

Topics: Bloodshed Many Maybe Must Prevail Righteousness Some Someday Take Year

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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

~Chief Joseph

Topics: Avoid Bloodshed Hard Trouble

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I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

~Chief Joseph

Topics: Bloodshed Did People Want

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Middle Eastern wars rarely end with outright victory and permanent stability, so the word 'settlement' may promise too much. At best, for many years, it may simply mean stable ceasefire lines, reduced bloodshed, fewer refugees, and less terrorism.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Best Bloodshed Eastern End Fewer Less Lines Many May Mean Middle Middle Eastern Much Outright Permanent Promise Rarely Reduced Refugees Settlement Simply Stability Stable Terrorism Too Too Much Victory Wars Word Years

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I can't admit to myself that the creation of a Palestinian state won't happen. What I know is that with each passing year it gets more and more difficult to happen, not least because there is more and more bloodshed, generation upon generation.

~David Miliband

Topics: Admit Because Bloodshed Creation Difficult Each Generation Gets Happen Know Least More More And More Myself Palestinian Palestinian State Passing State Year

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