Victor Hugo Quotes

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Victor Hugo

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• War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Object
  • Foreign War