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War is a bad and contemptible thing, but people at war are sometimes better than in everyday life.
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War is a matter of vital importance to the state, the road either to survival or to ruin.
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War is a method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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War is a fundamental, beneficial possibility of political life. Because the state is an individual vis-a-vis other states. As such, it must engender an opposite and create an enemy.
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War is a matter of vital importance to the state... the province of life or death... the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
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