"We want no war of conquest…. War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."
— War and peace

January 1, 1970

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William McKinley, Inaugural Address. Washington, March 4, 1897. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.