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When the tyrant has disposed
of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing
more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
PLATO
Why do we kill people who are
killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
HOLLY NEAR
It is fatal to enter any war
without the will to win it.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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?
GANDHI
War is too serious a matter to
entrust to military men.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
You can no more win a war than
you can win an earthquake.
JEANNETTE RANKIN
So long as there are men there
will be wars.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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 HEMMINGWAY
Nuclear war would really set
back cable.
TED TURNER
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!
PATRICK HENRY
We kind o' thought Christ went
agin war an' pillage.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
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.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Only the dead have seen the end
of war.
PLATO
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
There is nothing so likely to
produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I know not with what weapons
World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought
with sticks and stones.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I'm fed up to the ears with old
men dreaming up wars for young men to fight in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
Naturally, the common people
don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country
who determine the 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 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 every country.
HERMANN GOERING
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. This 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. This is not a way
of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it
is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
Never has there been a good war
or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You can't say civilization don't
advance -- for every war, they kill you in a new way.
WILL ROGERS
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