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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
William Hazlitt: Selections on war
William Hazlitt: And this is patriotism. Practitioners of eternal war.
William Hazlitt: Difference between a war-expenditure and what ought to be a peace-establishment
William Hazlitt: Effects of war and taxes
William Hazlitt: Harpies of the press. Juggling fiends. Systematic opponents of peace. Ceaseless partisans of interminable hostilities.
William Hazlitt: High-priests of Moloch foam at the mouth at the name of peace
William Hazlitt: Keystone of indestructible war-system: Closing up the avenues to peace, shutting the gates of mercy on mankind
William Hazlitt: Systematic patrons of eternal war
William Hazlitt: Ultima ratio regum: liberals and conservatives united by leaden bullets and steel bayonets
William Hazlitt: War is in itself is a thriving, sensible traffic only to cannibals
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