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Securing peace by preparing for war is a cumbersome, roundabout and extravagant theory
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- Jane Addams American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935)
Certainly no theory could be devised which is more cumbersome, more roundabout, more extravagant, than the reductio ad absurdum of the peace-secured-by-the-preparation-for-war theory.
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↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org
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