Haile Selassie Quotes about War

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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

War, Men, Enemy

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Haile Selassie

Country, War, Men

Address to Ethiopian Parliament, 18 July 1935

We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.

Haile Selassie

War, Order, People

"Days of Emperor and Clown : The Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936" by James Dugan and Laurence Davis Lafore, (p. 204), 1973.