War arises from both sides feeling they have a hope of victory.

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Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol III, Churchill and People, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 351-2. ISBN 0903988445

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War arises from both sides feeling they have a hope of victory.

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