No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution b…

Ernest Hemingway
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). Hemingway on War, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). Hemingway on War, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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