Never believe any war will be smooth
and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure
the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
~Winston Churchill
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The chain reaction of evil--wars
producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the
dark abyss of annihilation.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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War is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most
vicious.
~General Smedley Butler
|
Imperialism is an institution under
which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to
control the government or resources of another people.
~John T. Flynn
|
The great error of nearly all studies
of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies,
when it is an act of interior politics...
~Simone Weil
|
We may extend our dominion over the
whole continent...but be assured it will be at the price of our free
institutions.
~Rep. William Waters Boyce
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I hate war for its consequences, for
the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it
arouses...
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Before the war is ended, the war
party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to
war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette
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After every ''victory'' you have more
enemies.
~Jeanette Winterson
|
The winds that blow our billions away
return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
~Garet Garrett
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I hope....that mankind will at
length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason
and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats...
~Benjamin Franklin
|
[T]he essence of so-called war
prosperity; it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not
rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.
~Ludwig von Mises
|
Our children are not born to hate,
they are raised to hate.
~Thomas della Peruta
|
Violence can only be concealed by a
lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
|
The shepherd always tries to persuade
the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
~Marie Beyle
|
I guess every generation is doomed to
fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the
same old lessons on its own.
~Phillip Caputo
|
I hate those men who would send into
war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those
old men, making their wars that boys must die.
~Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Guard against the impostures of
pretended patriotism.
~George Washington
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The de facto role of the US armed
forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our
cultural assault.
~Major Ralph Peters, US Military
|
For me war has become a flat, black
depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion
of the spirit.
~Ernie Pyle
|
Patriotism means to stand by the
country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public
official...
~Theodore Roosevelt
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The worst crimes were dared by a few,
willed by more and tolerated by all.
~Tacitus
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War's a game, which, were their
subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
~William Cowper
|
Military glory--that attractive
rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms
to destroy...
~Abraham Lincoln
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Only a free and unrestrained press
can effectively expose deception in government.
~Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
~General William Westmoreland
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Because I do it with one small ship,
I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an
emperor.
~A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of
God"
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What is morally wrong can never be
advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you
believe to be to your advantage.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
|
We are the ones responsible to
determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are
fighting in is worth the cause...
~Scott Ritter
|
I am not blaming those who are
resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to
submit.
~Thucydides
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The life of the nation is secure only
while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
~Frederick Douglass
|
Everybody's worried about stopping
terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
~Noam Chomsky
|
It is far easier to make war than
peace.
~Georges Clemenceau
|
The belief in the possibility of a
short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous
of human illusions.
~Robert Lynd
|
Nations, like individuals, are
punished for their transgressions.
~Ulysses S. Grant
|
It would be easier to subjugate the
entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
~Voltaire
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Those who give up essential liberties
for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin
|
Of all the enemies to public liberty,
war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops
the germ of every other.
~James Madison
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War doesn't make boys men, it makes
men dead.
~Ken Gillespie
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An army of principles can penetrate
where an army of soldiers cannot.
~Thomas Paine
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Modern war appears as a struggle led
by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men
old enough to bear arms...
~Simone Weil
|
Every nation has its war party. It is
not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to
dominate absolutely.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette
|
It is the job of thinking people not
to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus
|
We must not confuse dissent with
disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America
dies with it.
~Edward R. Murrow
|
Wars teach us not to love our
enemies, but to hate our allies.
~W. L. George
|
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no
value if none of them know anything about the subject.
~Marcus Aurelius
|
The mere act of believing that some
wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
|
Man was/is born free, and everywhere
he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is
nonetheless a greater slave than they.
~Jean Jaques Rousseau
|
The dangerous patriot...drifts into
chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
|
I've been immersed in it too long. My
spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
~Ernie Pyle
|
It is unpatriotic not to tell the
truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
~Theodore Roosevelt
|
Our country is now geared to an arms
economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an
incessant propaganda of fear.
~General Douglas MacArthur
|
For what can war, but endless war,
still breed?
~John Milton
|
Paramount among the responsibilities
of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from
deceiving the people...
~Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice
|
Even if we are spared destruction by
war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from
self-destruction.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
|
Liberty and democracy become unholy
when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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Let not your zeal to share your
principles entice you beyond your borders.
~Marquis de Sade
|
The statesman who yields to war
fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable
and uncontrollable events.
~Winston Churchill
|
It is always more valuable to report
the truth.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
|
In times of universal deceit, telling
the truth will be a revolutionary act.
~George Orwell
|
What an immense mass of evil must
result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may
happen.
~Leo Tolstoy
|
Peace is constructed, not fought for.
~Brent Davis
|
Love of power, operating through
greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
~Thucydides
|
We say that we care about the war,
but we don’t even really know what we’re fighting for.
~Scott Ritter
|
In this war – as in others – I am
less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
~Butler Shaffer
|
It is only those who have neither
fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry
aloud for blood...War is hell.
~General William Tecumseh Sherman
|
It is dangerous to be right when the
government is wrong.
~Voltaire
|
The worst barbarity of war is that
it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually
they would revolt with their whole being.
~Ellen Key
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some men...in order to prevent the
supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most
enormous cruelties...
~Clearchus, in Xenophon
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[War] might be avoidable were more
emphasis placed on the training to social interest, less on the
attainment of egotistical grandeur.
~Lydia Sicher
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Look at you in war...There has never
been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator
of the war.
~Mark Twain
About the quote: from "The Mysterious
Stranger," published 1910.
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If, finally, violence meets with
violence, we have confirmation of the age old adage that war though it
kills many men, makes many more men evil.
~Fritz Medicus
|
It is a truism that almost any sect,
cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the
political power to do so...
~Robert A. Heinlein
|
Everything secret degenerates, even
the administration of justice.
~Lord Acton
|
Military justice is to justice what
military music is to music.
~Groucho Marx
|
Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the
only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead
|
No nation could preserve its freedom
in the midst of continual warfare.
~James Madison
|
Violence is the last refuge of the
incompetent.
~Issac Asimov
About the quote: The character Salvor Hardin
speaks these words in Asimov's "Foundation."
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The power to declare war, including
the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested
in the legislature.
~James Madison
|
...Violence as a way of gaining
power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national
honor [and] national security...
~Alfred Adler
|
A state of war only serves as an
excuse for domestic tyranny.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
|
War is not the continuation of
politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated
on the community of man.
~Alfred Adler
|
As long as we can talk with people,
as long as one can keep the guns quiet, one has a chance.
~Lydia Sicher
|
It is always easier to fight for
one’s principles than to live up to them.
~Alfred Adler
|
We will not learn how to live
together in peace by killing each other's children.
~Jimmy Carter
|
The ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of
challenge and controversy.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
I hope our wisdom will grow with our
power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will
be.
~Thomas Jefferson
|
The dangerous patriot...is a defender
of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
|
The next war ... may well bury
Western civilization forever.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
|
War is the continuation of politics
by other means.
~Karl Von Clausewitz
|
Man has no right to kill his brother.
It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of
servitude to the crime of murder.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
|
Is it not a strange blindness on our
part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with
medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
~Marquis de Sade
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to
war-war.
~Otto von Bismarck
About the quote: Bismarck (1815-1898) was the
first Chancellor of the Germany Empire from 1871-1890. This quote is
often mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill.
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The cry has been that when war is
declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of
a free country could hardly be propagated.
~William Ellery Channing
|
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses
the hatred of the civilian population...
~Jean-Paul Sartre
|
War is at best barbarism. Its glory
is all moonshine...War is hell.
~General William Tecumseh Sherman
|
The voice of protest...is never more
needed than when the clamor of fife and drum...is bidding all men...obey
in silence the tyrannous word of command.
~Charles Eliot Norton
|
The essential act of war is
destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of
human labor.
~George Orwell
About the quote: This quote is spoken by the
character of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's novel, "1984."
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The war...was an unnecessary
condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and
wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
~Robert E. Lee
|
Where is the justice of political
power if it...marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and
pillaging the very hills?
~Kahlil Gibran
|
We must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
Respect for the rights of others
means peace.
~Benito Juárez
|
War is not a word, it's an acronym
for "Wasting Another's Resources."
~Ramman Kenoun
|
Let us become inspired by inherent
beauty, and not impassioned by manufactured hate.
~Nima Shirali, Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum
|
War remains the decisive human
failure.
~John Kenneth Galbraith
|
That we are to stand by the
president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is
morally treasonable to the American public.
~Theodore Roosevelt
|
All nations want peace, but they want
a peace that suits them.
~Admiral Sir John Fisher
|
The spirit of resistance to
government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be
always kept alive.
~Thomas Jefferson
|
The evil that is in the world almost
always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as
malevolence if they lack understanding.
~Albert Camus
|
Unthinking respect for authority is
the greatest enemy of truth.
~Albert Einstein
|
All mankind...being all equal and
independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty
or possessions.
~John Locke
|
Today the real test of power is not
capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
~Anne O'Hare McCormick
|
Under democracy, one party always
devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is
unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
~H.L. Mencken
|
One is left with the horrible feeling
now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to
lose one.
~Agatha Christie
|
I hate war...for the dictatorships it
puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks
after it.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
|
Peace, commerce and honest friendship
with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
~Thomas Jefferson
|
To all those who walk the path of
human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
~Alfred Adler
|
War is a racket. It is the only one
international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are
reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
~General Smedley Butler
|
War is not its own end, except in
some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
~Lois McMaster Bujold
|
We thought, because we had power, we
had wisdom.
~Stephen Vincent Benét
|
The guns and the bombs, the rockets
and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
~Lyndon B. Johnson
|
History teaches that war begins when
governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
~Ronald Reagan
|
What is more immoral than war?
~Marquis de Sade
|
There are only two things we should
fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of
Rights.
~General Smedley Butler
|
War is wretched beyond description,
and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
~Senator John McCain
|
Total war is no longer war waged by
all members of one national community against all those of another. It
is total...because it may well involve the whole world.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
|
Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is
delightful to the inexperienced).
~Erasmus, the 16th-century scholar
|
Right is right, even if everyone is
against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
~William Penn
|
Where is the justice of political
power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer?
~Kahlil Gibran
|
Disarmament, with mutual honor and
confidence, is a continuing imperative.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
May we never confuse honest dissent
with disloyal subversion.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
We first fought...in the name of
religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism.
Our excuses for global domination always change.
~Serj Tankian
|
People do not make wars; governments
do.
~Ronald Reagan
|
Any forces that would impose their
will on other nations will certainly face defeat.
~General Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnam)
|
Protecting the rights of even the
least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government
has for even existing.
~Ronald Reagan
|
To announce that there must be no
criticism of the president...is morally treasonable to the American
public.
~Theodore Roosevelt
|
To declare that the end justifies the
means, to declare that the government may commit crimes, would bring
terrible retribution.
~Justice Louis D. Brandeis
|
Political language ... is designed to
make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind.
~George Orwell
|
The Department of Defense is the
behemoth...With an annual budget larger than the gross domestic product
of Russia, it is an empire.
~The 9/11 Commission Report
About the quote: Norton First Edition
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Behind the ostensible government sits
enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging
no responsibility to the people.
~Theodore Roosevelt
|
This world of ours...must avoid
becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud
confederation of mutual trust and respect.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
War is the business of barbarians.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
|
The essential act of war is
destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of
human labor.
~George Orwell
About the quote: This quote is spoken by the
character of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's novel, "1984."
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War means blind obedience, unthinking
stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible
murder.
~Alexander Berkman
|
One day the end of the world will
come as a result of a 'justified' war.
~Mikhail Gofman, Antiwar.com reader
|
Our enemies...never stop thinking
about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
~George W. Bush
|
There should be an honest attempt at
the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
~Jimmy Carter
|
Our modern states are preparing for
war without even knowing the future enemy.
~Alfred Adler
|
War is the statesman's game, the
priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
|
A man who says that no patriot should
attack the war until it is over...is saying no good son should warn his
mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
~G. K. Chesterton
|
War is organized murder and torture
against our brothers.
~Alfred Adler
|
Never, never, never believe any war
will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange
voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter...
~Winston Churchill
|
Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose
form of patriotism...which equates the national honor with military
victory.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
|
Social order at the expense of
liberty is hardly a bargain.
~Marquis de Sade
|
War prosperity is like the prosperity
that an earthquake or a plague brings.
~Ludwig von Mises
|
Every war when it comes, or before it
comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against
a homicidal maniac.
~George Orwell
|
Criticism in a time of war is
essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
~Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio
|
In times of peace, the war party
insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it
insists on making war.
~Senator Robert M. La Follette
|
In the eyes of empire builders men
are not men but instruments.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
|
There is neither rank nor station nor
prerogative in the republic of the grave.
~John James Ingalls
|
There is no way to peace. Peace is
the way.
~Mahatma Gandhi
About the quote: This quote is also often
credited to a peace activist A.J. Muste.
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There is no glory in battle worth the
blood it costs.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a
moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
~George Bernard Shaw
|
...no mother would ever willingly
sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for
ideology.
~Ronald Reagan
|
Together we must learn how to compose
difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
Those who can make you believe
absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Voltaire
|
It is finer to bring one noble human
being into the world and rear it well...than to kill ten thousand.
~Olive Schreiner
|
The nationalist not only does not
disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable
capacity for not even hearing about them.
~George Orwell
|
The evils of government are directly
proportional to the tolerance of the people.
~Frank Kent
|
The welfare of the people in
particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
~Albert Camus
|
In war, there are no unwounded
soldiers.
~Jose Narosky
|
What a cruel thing is war...to fill
our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to
devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
~Robert E. Lee
|
...to befoul the unholy alliance
between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the
statesmanship of the day.
~Theodore Roosevelt
|
If there is one principle more deeply
rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing
to do with conquest.
~Thomas Jefferson
|
War paralyzes your courage and
deadens the spirit of true manhood.
~Alexander Berkman
|
There is but one evil, war. All the
other proclaimed evils such as hate, greed, descrimination, and jealousy
are only sub-categories of it.
~Jose Barreiro
|
Emphasis on military prowess is an
indication of philosophical poverty.
~Henk Middelraad
|
War brings out the most negative
emotional human responses on both sides.
~Henk Middelraad
|
I love America more than any other
country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right
to criticize her perpetually.
~James Baldwin
|
Don't regard yourself as a guardian
of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you
disagree with...
~Gerard K. O'Neill
|
Our country is not the only thing to
which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
~James Bryce
|
Don't talk to me about atrocities;
all war is an atrocity.
~Lord Kitchener (Horatio Herbert)
|
War is a way of shattering to
pieces...materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too
comfortable and...too intelligent.
~George Orwell
About the quote: This quote is spoken by the
character of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's novel, "1984."
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Those who are asking for more
government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and
less freedom.
~Ludwig von Mises
|
The State thrives on war – unless,
of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it.
~Murray Rothbard
|
Old men declare war. But it is the
youth that must fight and die.
~Herbert C. Hoover
|
The greater the state, the more wrong
and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon
which its power is founded.
~Leo Tolstoy
|
How could man rejoice in victory and
delight in the slaughter of men?
~Lao Tzu
|
Society has arisen out of the works
of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
~Ludwig von Mises
|
There were no international
terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect
conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
~Robin Cook
About the quote: Cook is Britain's former foreign
secretary. He resigned from the British Cabinet over the Iraq War.
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Usually, terrible things that are
done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress
at all, but just terrible things.
~Russell Baker
|
A people free to choose will always
choose peace.
~Ronald Reagan
|
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
~Aesop
|
War vies with magic in its efforts to
get something for nothing...
~Lewis Mumford
|
Each man must for himself alone
decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and
which isn't.
~Mark Twain
|
Nothing doth more hurt in a state
than that cunning men pass for wise.
~Sir Francis Bacon
|
The means of defense against foreign
danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
~James Madison
|
Let us form a new religion, that
which would be called 'humanity', with 'peace' as its prophet.
~Nima Shirali, Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum
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All men having power ought to be
mistrusted.
~James Madison
|
Think of war as a game of Russian
roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.
~Ramman Kenoun
|
What the people want is very simple -
they want an America as good as its promise.
~Barbara Jordan
|
Dictators have always played on the
natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
~Gerard K. O'Neill
|
Patriotism consists not in waving the
flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as
strong.
~James Bryce
|
Peace has to be created, in order to
be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
~Dorothy Thompson
|
Even the most piddling life is of
momentous consequence to its owner.
~James Wolcott
About the quote: in his article “From Fear to
Eternity” in Vanity Fair, March 2005
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National defense is the usual pretext
for the policy of fleecing the people.
~Senator John Taylor
About the quote: US Senator(SC), lived from
1753-1824
|
There are no politics in war.
Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of
survival.
~John Cory
|
War is never economically beneficial
except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
~Congressman Ron Paul
|
In war, the army is not merely a pure
consumer, but a negative producer...
~Lewis Mumford
About the quote: from "Technics and
Civilization"
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The reality right now is that the
most dangerous opinion in the world is the opinion of a U.S. serviceman.
~Lance Cpl. Devin Kelly (USMC)
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We carefully nurture a spirit of
detachment toward the wars we pay for.
~James Carroll
About the quote: The Boston Globe, 9/21/04
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The world cannot continue to wage war
like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
~Basil O'Connor
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All government wars are unjust.
~Murray Rothbard
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The people can always be brought to
the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger.
~Herman Goering
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We must not only cease our present
desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its
weakening...
~Leo Tolstoy
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Violence, even well intentioned,
always rebounds upon oneself.
~Lao Tzu
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Wars have ever been but another
aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
~Richard Cobden
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Peace and friendship with all mankind
is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
~Thomas Jefferson
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has
always been in excess of the demand.
~Josh Billings
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
~Edmund Burke
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The release of atomic energy has not
created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of
solving an existing one.
~Albert Einstein
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To some degree it matters who's in
office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the
public.
~Noam Chomsky
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This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
~Plato
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Governments have never learned
anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
~Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist
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The state has, in order to control
us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust
others and look to the state for protection.
~Butler Shaffer
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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and
war is the terrorism of the rich.
~Sir Peter Ustinov
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk
in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without
understanding.
~Louis D. Brandeis
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Peace...is the product of Faith,
Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph
of principle.
~Dorothy Thompson
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We believed ourselves indestructable...
watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained
defenseless against our own madmen.
~Jacobo Timerman
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There is no morality in war. Morality
is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death
and destruction...
~John Cory
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That there are men in all countries
who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations
is as shocking as it is true...
~Thomas Paine
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We Americans have no commission from
God to police the world.
~Benjamin Harrison
About the quote: from an 1888 address to Congress
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In war, there are no winners.
~Ramman Kenoun
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...The very nature of interstate war
puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern
technology.
~Murray Rothbard
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Peace hath higher tests of manhood
than battle ever knew.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
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It's more humane to cure your enemies
than to kill them.
~Hugh Mann
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There is nothing more frightening
than active ignorance.
~Goethe
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Education is a better safeguard of
liberty than a standing army.
~Edward Everett
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the
vain search for absolute security.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The biggest lesson I learned from
Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
~Senator James W. Fulbright
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Coercive practices that threaten our
neighbor(s) also threaten us.
~Butler Shaffer
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We need a type of patriotism that
recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
~Francis John McConnell
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A man who kills on his own is a
murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national
hero.
~Ramman Kenoun
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is
the climate of freedom.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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War is the tool of small-minded
scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed.
~John Cory
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The State acquires power... and
because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up
any of it. The State never abdicates.
~Frank Chodorov
|
No great dependence is to be placed
on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to
those who are strangers to it.
~Vegetius
|
To the wicked, everything serves as
pretext.
~Voltaire
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I'm afraid, based on my own
experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national
security.
~Jim Garrison
|
The only security for the American
people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of
force rather than the use of force.
~Norman Cousins
|
We must get away from the idea that
America is to be the leader of the world in everything.
~Francis John McConnell
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The heights of popularity and
patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny...
~David Hume
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If this phrase of the 'balance of
power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will
never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
~John Bright
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not
of mankind.
~Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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No matter that patriotism is too
often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around
hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
~Barbara Ehrenreich
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War is the cemetery of futures
promised.
~John Cory
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To kill a man is not to defend a
doctrine, but to kill a man.
~Michael Servetus
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Phony pretexts repeated often enough
become real reasons. Things that...are not true become true in the
public mind simply through endless repetition.
~Lenny Bloom
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They wrote in the old days that it is
sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there
is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for
no good reason.
~Ernest Hemingway
About the quote: from "Notes on the Next
War," published in Esquire Magazine, 1935.
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War is eternity jammed into frantic
minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
~John Cory
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it
is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
~Ronald Reagan
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You can no more win a war than you
can win an earthquake.
~Jeanette Rankin
|
It is unfortunately none too well
understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no
power of its own.
~Albert J. Nock
|
Wars are poor chisels for carving out
peaceful tomorrows.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All those who seek to destroy the
liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest
and shortest means to accomplish it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
|
The only purpose for which power can
be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community,
against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either
physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
~John Stuart Mill
|
The moral and constitutional
obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our
liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing
bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~Ron Paul
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Force always attracts men of low
morality.
~Albert Einstein
|
War is just a racket...I believe in
adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
~General Smedley Butler
|
War technology is science in the
service of obscene anatomical vandalism.
~Stan Goff
|
There are only two things we should
fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of
Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
~General Smedley Butler
|
What difference does it make to the
dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is
wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty
and democracy?
~Mahatma Gandhi
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The loss of liberty at home is to be
charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
~James Madison
|
Allow the president to invade a
neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an
invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he
deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at
pleasure.
~Abraham Lincoln
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Our nation is somewhat sad, but
we’re angry. There’s a certain level of blood lust, but we won’t
let it drive our reaction. We’re steady, clear-eyed and patient, but
pretty soon we’ll have to start displaying scalps.
~George W. Bush
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It is part of the general pattern of
misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which
was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and
nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
~General Douglas MacArthur
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'Emergencies' have always been the
pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
~FA Hayek
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And ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall set you free.
~John 8:32
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When fanatics are on top there is no
limit to oppression.
~H.L. Menken
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal,
these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they
call it peace.
~Tacitus
About the quote: This quote is attributed to
Calgacus in the Roman historian Tacitus' "Agricola."
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War should be the politics of last
resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people
understand and support.
~Colin Powell
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Vietnam was the first war ever fought
without censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused
in the public mind.
~General William Westmoreland
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They talk about conscription as a
democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetery.
~Rep. Meyer London
|
The slightest acquaintance with
history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and
unscrupulous of nations.
~Ambrose Bierce
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War, n: A time-tested political
tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least
30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic
downturns.
~Chaz Bufe
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I learned nothing from war. War is
not an activity for human beings; war is for criminals—rape, robbery
and murder.
~Roman Podabedov (Russian anti-tank gunner)
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There is no flag large enough to
cover the shame of killing innocent people.
~Howard Zinn
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War is a racket.
~Smedley Butler
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We have to show the American People
that war is not patriotic.
~Justin Raimondo
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If my soldiers were to begin to
think, not one of them would remain in the army.
~Frederick the Great
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
~R. Buckminster Fuller
|
Are bombs the only way of setting
fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past
two world-wide wars would indicate?
~Gregory Clark
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men
dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
~George McGovern
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If I'm fighting for freedom here, and
I go home and I'm opressed, what does that mean?
~Pv2 Frederick Phoenix, MP, US Army
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War is too serious a matter to
entrust to military men.
~Georges Clemenceau
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Nothing except a battle lost can be
half as melancholy as a battle won.
~Duke of Wellington
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I hate war as only a soldier who has
lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its
stupidity.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Mankind must put an end to war, or
war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy
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Every government has as much of a
duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
~Guy de Maupassant
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War is a quarrel between two thieves
too cowardly to fight their own battle.
~Thomas Carlyle
|
Why should you ask blood be spilled
for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
~Rep. Wally Herger
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All wars are fought for money.
~Socrates
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Tis nobler to lose honor to save the
lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
~David Borenstein
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Man is the only animal that is cruel.
It kills just for the sake of it.
~Mark Twain
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Force is all-conquering, but its
victories are short-lived.
~Abraham Lincoln
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The first casualty when war comes is
the truth.
~Sen. Hiram Johnson
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This war is not necessary. We are
truly sleepwalking through history.
~Sen. Robert Byrd
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Washington...has become an alien
city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the
way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
~Richard Maybury
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Arbitrary power is most easily
established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
~George Washington
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary
war.
~John Adams
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A belligerent state permits itself
every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the
individual.
~Sigmund Freud
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Our government has kept us in a
perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic
fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
~General Douglas MacArthur
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After each war there is a little less
democracy to save.
~Brooks Atkinson
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I want to scare the hell out of the
rest of the world.
~General Colin Powell
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If this were a dictatorship, it'd be
a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
~George W. Bush
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Violence and arms can never resolve
the problems of men.
~Pope John Paul II
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If peace...only had the music and
pagaentry of war, there'd be no wars.
~Sophie Kerr
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God hates violence. He has ordained
that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
~Euripides
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Every man thinks god is on his side.
~Jean Anouilh
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All the gods are dead except the god
of war.
~Eldridge Cleaver
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The bombs in Vietnam explode at home;
they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Wars should be over in three days or
less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
~Evan Thomas
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We used to wonder where war lived,
what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where
it lives...inside ourselves.
~Albert Camus
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The supreme excellence is to subde
the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
~Sun Tzu
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only
one step.
~Denis Diderot
|
The time has come to stop beating our
heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed
policeman to the human race.
~Walter Lippmann
|
It is our true policy to steer clear
of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
~George Washington
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We must recognize the chief
characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call
violent peace.
~Admiral James D. Watkins
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The spirit of this country is totally
adverse to a large military force.
~Thomas Jefferson
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No nation ever had an army large
enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of
victory in time of war.
~Calvin Coolidge
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Can anything be more ridiculous than
that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of
the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have
none with him?
~Blaise Pascal
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An empire founded by war has to
maintain itself by war.
~Montesquieu
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War will exist until that distant day
when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
~John F. Kennedy
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the
time; incredible afterwards.
~E. M. Forster
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It is the youth who must inherit the
tribulation, the sorrow...that are the aftermath of war.
~Herbert C. Hoover
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There's no difference between one's
killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly
the same thing, or even worse.
~Golda Meir
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The military doesn't start wars. The
politicians start wars.
~General William Westmoreland
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It is the merit of a general to
impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
~Sophocles
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In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus
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A thing is not necessarily true
because a man dies for it.
~Oscar Wilde
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Man is the only animal of which I am
thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It
has no ideals, no sect, no party...
~George Bernard Shaw
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"My country right or wrong"
is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober."
~G. K. Chesterton
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History is littered with wars which
everybody knew would never happen.
~Enoch Powell
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At least we're getting the kind of
experience we need for the next war.
~Allen Dulles
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War is the greatest plague that can
affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys
families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
~Martin Luther
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How vile and despicable war seems to
me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an
abominable business.
~Albert Einstein
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Have you ever thought that war is a
madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
~Oriana Fallaci
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War is the unfolding of
miscalculations.
~Barbara Tuchman
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War is mainly a catalogue of
blunders.
~Winston Churchill
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Hate is able to provoke disorders, to
ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody
revolutions; but it produces nothing.
~Georges Sorel
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We are all familiar with the
argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we
none of us believe it.
~John Galsworthy
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War is not an adventure. It is a
disease. It is like typhus.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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War would end if the dead could
return.
~Stanley Baldwin
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There are no warlike people--just
warlike leaders.
~Ralph Bunche
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Name me an emperor who was ever
struck by a cannonball.
~Charles V of France
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As for being a General, well, at the
age of four with paper hats and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only
some of us never grow out of it.
~Sir Peter Ustinov
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You're not supposed to be so blind
with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter
who does it or who says it.
~Malcolm X
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To wage war, you need first of all
money; second, you need money, and third, you also need money.
~Prince Montecuccoli
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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the
bill comes later.
~Benjamin Franklin
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A man may build himself a throne of
bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
~William Ralph Inge
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You can wipe out your opponents. But
if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
~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
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You can't have this kind of war.
There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the
streets.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Atomic Age is here to stay--but
are we?
~Bennett Cerf
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You've got to forget about this
civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
~Barry Goldwater
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We must realize that no arsenal, or
no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and
moral courage of free men and women.
~Ronald Reagan
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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can
only be achieved by understanding.
~Albert Einstein
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must
elect world peace or world destruction.
~Bernard M. Baruch
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It is not reasonable that those who
gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
~H. G. Wells
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Only the winners decide what were war
crimes.
~Gary Wills
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True patriotism hates injustice in
its own land more than anywhere else.
~Clarence Darrow
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If you live long enough, you'll see
that every victory turns into a defeat.
~Simone de Beauvoir
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It takes twenty years or more of
peace to make a man; it only takes twenty seconds of war to destroy him.
~King Baudouin I of Belgium
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The time not to become a father is
eighteen years before a war.
~E. B. White
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In peace, sons bury their fathers; in
war, fathers bury their sons.
~Herodotus
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When you are winning a war almost
everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
~Winston Churchill
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One more such victory and we are
undone.
~Pyrrhus of Epirus
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The urge to save humanity is almost
always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
~H. L. Mencken
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The whole aim of practical politics
is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~H. L. Mencken
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Those who stand for nothing fall for
anything.
~Alexander Hamilton
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The obligations of our
representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the
world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic
turmoil to our people.
~Ron Paul
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Government is not reason, it is not
eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to
irresponsible action.
~George Washington
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It is our true policy to steer clear
of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
~George Washington
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I believe in only one thing: liberty;
but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
~H. L. Mencken
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America does not go abroad in search
of monsters to destroy.
~John Quincy Adams
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Our reluctance for conflict should
not be misjudged as a failure of will.
~Ronald Reagan
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Civilized society is perpetually
menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men
towards one another...
~Sigmund Freud
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The coward threatens when he is safe.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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People who talk of outlawing the
atomic bomb are mistaken — what needs to be outlawed is war.
~Leslie Richard Groves
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Peace has its victories no less than
war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
~Kin Hubbard
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A coward is much more exposed to
quarrels than a man of spirit.
~Thomas Jefferson
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How strangely will the Tools of a
Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
~Samuel Adams
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Do not ever say that the desire to
"do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor
stupidity are good motives.
~Ayn Rand
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Most wars are started by well-fed
people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or
grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
~Thomas Sowell
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The worst evils which mankind has
ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
~Ludwig von Mises
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Economically considered, war and
revolution are always bad business.
~Ludwig von Mises
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War can really cause no economic
boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does
result from destruction of goods.
~Ludwig von Mises
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War is the Health of the State.
~Randolph Bourne
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Whoever wishes peace among peoples
must fight statism.
~Ludwig von Mises
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The attainment of the economic aims
of man presupposes peace.
~Ludwig von Mises
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History has witnessed the failure of
many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion,
unanimity by slaughtering dissidents…. A lasting order cannot be
established by bayonets.
~Ludwig von Mises
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Peace and abstinence from European
interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present
order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
~Thomas Jefferson
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Commerce with all nations, alliance
with none, should be our motto.
~Thomas Jefferson
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There never was a good war or a bad
peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Of all the enemies to public liberty,
war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and
develops the germ of every other.
~James Madison
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The urge to save humanity is almost
always a false front for the urge to rule.
~H.L. Mencken
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America does not go abroad in search
of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and
independence of all.
~John Quincy Adams
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When the tyrant has disposed of
foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from
them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the
people may require a leader.
~Plato
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An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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In all history there is no war which
was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent
of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even
when successful.
~Leo Tolstoy
|
The constitution vests the power of
declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of
importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated
upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
~George Washington
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk
in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without
understanding.
~Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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The political object is the goal, war
is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in
isolation from their purposes.
~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
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All murderers are punished unless
they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~Voltaire
|
You never need an argument against
the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
~Noam Chomsky
|
I am not against all wars--just
whichever is current.
~Ken Gillespie
|
They are nations of eternal war. All
their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property,
and lives of their people.
~Thomas Jefferson
About the quote: From a letter to president
Monroe, 1823.
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No one has deputized America to play
Wyatt Earp to the world.
~Patrick J. Buchanan
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I venture to say no war can be long
carried on against the will of the people.
~Edmund Burke
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I think war is a dangerous place.
~George W. Bush
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War’s a brain spattering windpipe
splitting art.
~Lord Byron
|
It is in war that the State really
comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute
dominion over the economy and the society.
~Murray Rothbard
|
It is harder to preserve than to
obtain liberty.
~John C. Calhoun
|
The only defensible war is a war of
defense.
~G. K. Chesterton
|
The pertinent question: if Americans
did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
~Frank Chodorov
|
The more laws, the less justice.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
|
The sinews of war are infinite money.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Politics is the womb in which war
develops.
~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to
this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
~James Madison
About the quote: This quote is from the period he
served as a US Congressman (he represented Virginia from 1789-1797).
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Remember that a government big enough
to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away
everything you have.
~Davy Crockett
|
A standing army is a standing menace
to liberty.
~Voltairine de Clayre
|
When people speak to you about a
preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I
have come to hate war.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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War settles nothing.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Peace cannot be achieved through
violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you kill one person you are a
murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten
thousand you are a national hero.
~Vassilis Epaminondou
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Civilization began the first time an
angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
~Sigmund Freud
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When American presidents prepare for
foreign wars, they lie.
~Robert Higgs
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Since the end of the nineteenth
century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their
motives and their intentions in going to war.
~Robert Higgs
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Force and fraud are in war the two
cardinal virtues.
~Thomas Hobbes
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What is absurd and monstrous about
war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder
one another in cold blood.
~Aldous Huxley
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Conquest is not in our principles. It
is inconsistent with our government.
~Thomas Jefferson
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We did not raise armies for glory or
for conquest.
~Thomas Jefferson
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I abhor war and view it as the
greatest scourge of mankind.
~Thomas Jefferson
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The most successful war seldom pays
for its losses.
~Thomas Jefferson
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Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
~Helen Keller
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Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an
army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
~Helen Keller
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Nothing good ever comes of violence.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Man must evolve for all human
conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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War against a foreign country only
happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~George Orwell
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Every war when it comes, or before it
comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against
a homicidal maniac.
~George Orwell
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One certain effect of war is to
diminish freedom of expression.
~Howard Zinn
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War prosperity is like the prosperity
that an earthquake or a plague brings.
~Ludwig von Mises
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Will . . . the threat of common
extermination continue?. . . Must children receive the arms race from us
as a necessary inheritance?
~Pope John Paul II
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War--after all, what is it that the
people get? Why--widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.
~Samuel B. Pettengill
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No matter what political reasons are
given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~A. J. P. Taylor
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No war is inevitable until it breaks
out.
~A. J. P. Taylor
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Almost all war making states borrow
extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat- including
men--from reluctant citizens...
~Charles Tilly
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All warfare is based on deception.
~Sun Tzu
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There is no instance of a country
having benefited from prolonged warfare.
~Sun Tzu
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I hate it when they say, ‘He gave
his life for his country.’ They don’t die for the honor and glory of
their country. We kill them.
~Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque
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War has become a spectator sport for
Americans.
~Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque
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We all have to be concerned about
terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
~Martin Luther King III
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Always there has been some terrible
evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us
up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
~General Douglas MacArthur
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Of all the enemies of public liberty,
war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops
the germ of every other.
~James Madison
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No nation could preserve its freedom
in the midst of continual warfare.
~James Madison
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The means of defense against foreign
danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
~James Madison
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War is only a cowardly escape from
the problems of peace.
~Thomas Mann
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Our poverty will be brought home to
us to its full extent only after the war.
~Joseph A. Schumpeter
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This president failed so miserably in
diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
~Tom Daschle
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The opposite of war is not peace,
it's creation.
~Jonathan Larson
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The real and lasting victories are
those of peace, and not of war.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is it security you want? There is no
security at the top of the world.
~Garet Garrett
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With no notice to the American
people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the
passive acceptance of it.
~Garet Garrett
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What a cruel thing is war: to
separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and
happiness god has given us in this world...
~Robert E. Lee
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History teaches that war begins when
governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
~Ronald Reagan
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It is not only the living who are
killed in war.
~Isaac Asimov
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
~General Omar N. Bradley
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Wars frequently begin ten years
before the first shot is fired.
~K. K. V. Casey
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Where is the indignation about the
fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive
force for every human being in the world?
~Norman Cousins
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There is nothing that war has ever
achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
~Henry Havelock Ellis
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The direct use of force is such a
poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small
children and large nations.
~David Friedman
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War grows out of the desire of the
individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
~Napoleon Hill
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The basic problems facing the world
today are not susceptible to a military solution.
~John F. Kennedy
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We have war when at least one of the
parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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One does not create a human society
on mounds of corpses.
~Louis Lecoin
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick
out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
~Herbert V. Prochnow
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Unconditional war can no longer lead
to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle
disputes...can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
~John F. Kennedy
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[War] can no longer be of concern to
great powers alone.
~John F. Kennedy
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We know more about war than we know
about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
~General Omar N. Bradley
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Peace is not the absence of war; it
is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence;
and justice.
~Spinoza
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Conflict cannot survive without your
participation.
~Dr. Wayne Dyer
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I just want you to know that, when we
talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
~George W. Bush
About the quote: From a speech at the Dept. of
Housing and Urban Development in Wash. DC, 6/18/02.
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You are not going to get peace with
millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road
littered with cannon.
~David Lloyd
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When will mankind be convinced and
agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
~Benjamin Franklin
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All wars are follies, very expensive
and very mischievous ones.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Mankind is becoming a single unit,
and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
~Havelock Ellis
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I'd like to see the government get
out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
~Joseph Heller
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What a country calls its vital...
interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help
it make war.
~Simone Weil
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