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Perhaps wars weren’t won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years’ War.
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms · 1929

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“The main military purpose and scheme of the Dictators is to produce quick results, to avoid a prolonged war. A prolonged war never suits dictators.”

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, 1948-1953 · Primary source

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