"My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace."
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As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 114.
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Alfred Nobel
1833 – 1896
schwedischer Chemiker und Erfinder
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