A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
(The Salvaging of Civilization, 1921)

H. G. Wells

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If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells (Things to Come, 1936)

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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Great and little cannot understand one another... But in every child born of man, lurks some seed of greatness.

H. G. Wells (The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, 1904)

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