I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
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Albert Camus:
[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
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Aldous Huxley:
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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Alfred Tennyson:
Till the war-drum throbb`d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl`d; In the parliament of man; the Federation of the world.
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Annie Dillard:
"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."
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Aristotle:
We make war that we may live in peace.
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Barbara Kingsolver:
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Barbara Kingsolver:
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Benjamin Franklin:
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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Blaise Pascal:
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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Colman McCarthy:
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
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Colman McCarthy:
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
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Croesus:
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
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David Friedman:
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
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Dorothy Thompson:
They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [1953]
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Ecclesiastes:
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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Eleanor Roosevelt:
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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General Douglas MacArthur:
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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George Bernard Shaw:
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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George W. Bush:
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.
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George W. Bush:
I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.
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George Washington:
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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George Washington:
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
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Georges Clemenceau:
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
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Gertrude Stein:
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick:
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.
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Hermann Goering:
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. quote verified at snopes.com
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Howard Nemerov:
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
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Howard Thurman:
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
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Isaac Asimov:
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Isaac Asimov:
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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James Russell Lowell:
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Jeanette Rankin:
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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John Adams:
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
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John F. Kennedy:
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
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John F. Kennedy:
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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John F. Kennedy:
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
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John Stuart Mill:
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Martha Gelhorn:
War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it
causes is beyond telling or meaning; but war was our condition
and our history, the place we had to live in.
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Omar N. Bradley:
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
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Patrick Henry:
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775
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R. Buckminster Fuller:
Either war is obsolete or men are.
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Ralph Bunche:
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Robert E. Lee:
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
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Ronald Reagan:
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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Simone Weil:
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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Spinoza:
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.
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Theodore Roosevelt:
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or 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. (1918)
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Thomas Jefferson:
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
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Thomas Paine:
If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Will Rogers:
You can't say civilization don't advance -- for in every war, they kill you in a new way.
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War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
~Abba Eban
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
~Abraham Flexner
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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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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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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~Abraham Lincoln
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
~Abraham Lincoln
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
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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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All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.
~Admiral Sir John Fisher
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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
~Adolph Hitler
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In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
~Aesop
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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
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
~A. J. P. Taylor
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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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Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
~Alan Watts
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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
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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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When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.
~Albert Camus
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
~Albert Camus
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Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~Albert Einstein
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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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Force always attracts men of low morality.
~Albert Einstein
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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~Albert Einstein
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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
~Albert Einstein
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~Albert Einstein
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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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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
~Albert Einstein
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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
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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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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
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The next war ... may well bury Western civilization forever.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
~Alexander Berkman
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
~Alexander Berkman
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
~Alexander Hamilton
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
~Alexander Pope
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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
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
~Alfred Adler
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
~Alfred Adler
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
~Alfred Adler
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...Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...
~Alfred Adler
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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
~Alfred Adler
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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory . . . and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
~Alfred Adler
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
~Alfred Adler
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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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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
~Ambrose Bierce
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Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason--hubris.
~Andrew Greely
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
~Anonymous (German)
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Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...
~Anthony Gregory
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
~Anthony Gregory
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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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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
~A. Philip Randolph
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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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Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
~Arthur Hoppe
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
~Ayn Rand
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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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Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
~Barbara Bush
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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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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
~Barbara Jordan
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
~Barbara Tuchman
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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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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
~Basil O'Connor
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
~Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin
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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
~Bernard M. Baruch
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
~Bertrand Russell
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War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
~Bertrand Russell
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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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The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
~Brendan Behan
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Peace is constructed, not fought for.
~Brent Davis
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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
~Brooks Atkinson
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After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.
~Brooks Atkinson
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Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
~Bruce Springsteen
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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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Coercive practices that threaten our neighbor(s) also threaten us.
~Butler Shaffer
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In this war – as in others – I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
~Butler Shaffer
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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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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
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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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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
~Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
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A rational army would run away.
~Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
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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
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If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
~Charles Eliot Norton
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
~Charles Evans Hughes
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
~Charles-Louis De Secondat
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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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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~Charles V of France
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The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
~Charley Reese
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We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
~Charley Reese
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The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.
~Charley Reese
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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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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
~Chris Hedges
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
~Chris Hedges
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In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
~Chris Hedges
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After victory, you have more enemies.
~Cicero
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
~Clarence Darrow
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Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant.
~C.L. Montague
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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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Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism...which equates the national honor with military victory.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
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The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
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The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
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You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
~Condoleeza Rice
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
~Congressman Ron Paul
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
~Congressman Ron Paul
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As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.
~Craig Murray
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised "for the good of its victims" may be the most oppressive.
~C. S. Lewis
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Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
~C.S. Lewis
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Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
~Daisaku Ikeda
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I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute...
~Dalai Lama
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All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
~Dalai Lama
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When the largest industry in the world is no longer War, I will accept Darwin's theory of Evolution.
~Dale S. Mugford
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it.
~Dale Turner
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
~Daniel Goleman
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There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.
~Daniel O'Connell
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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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You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It’s like having a war on jealousy.
~David Cross
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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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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny...
~David Hume
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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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War creates peace like hate creates love.
~David L. Wilson
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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
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
~Denis Diderot
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The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.
~Dick Cheney
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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.
~Donald Rumsfeld
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
~Donald Rumsfeld
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
~Dorothy Thompson
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
~Dorothy Thompson
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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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Dress it as we may...huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
~Douglas Jerrold
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The best defense is no offense.
~Dr. Ivan Eland
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We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Rules of engagement" are a set of guidelines for murder.
~Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
~Dr. Wayne Dyer
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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 think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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War settles nothing.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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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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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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
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
~E. B. White
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
~Ecclesiastes 9:18
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The tragedy of modern war is that the youg men die fighting each other---instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
~Ed Abbey
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A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~Ed Abbey
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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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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
~Edmund Burke
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
~Edward Abbey
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~Edward Abbey
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Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
~Edward Abbey
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~Edward Everett
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As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will remain the vice of the most exalted characters.
~Edward Gibbon
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Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
~Edward M. Kennedy
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
~Edward R. Murrow
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
~Eldridge Cleaver
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
~Elias Canetti
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