Harry Patch quotes
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“War is organized murder, and nothing else.”
-- Harry PatchSource : Harry Patch, Richard van Emden (2008). “The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009”, p.201, A&C Black
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“I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder.”
-- Harry PatchSource : "Land of conflict" by Ian Pindar, Aimee Shalan, John Dugdale, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2008.
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“I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.”
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“War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.”
-- Harry Patch
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Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK
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“Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.”
Source : Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.247, Anchor
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“I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.”
Source : "Grammy Award-Winning Rapper Big Boi: I Didn't Vote For Obama - I'm A Libertarian". Interview with Alyona Minkovski, www.newsbusters.org. January 12, 2013.
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