"The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force."

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I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

— Walt Whitman