Anti War Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Fear, War, Enemy

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Men, Spirit

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, War, Civilization

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• All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Suffering

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Peace, War

  "Questions sur les Miracles". Publication by Voltaire, 1765.

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, War

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

  William Graham Sumner

  Peace, War, Men

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

  Tony Benn

  War, Failure, Diplomats

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. February 28, 1991.

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• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  Alexander Berkman

  Peace, War, Mean

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Gambling, Government

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• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Peace, War, Civilization

  Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”

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• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  U Thant

  War, Loser, Modern

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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 Kirkpatrick

  Military, War, Party

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• ...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Technology

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• The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  War, Fire, Hands

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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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious".

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Money, War

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• The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, War, Successful

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.10, Algora Publishing

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Peace

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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

  Peace, War, Stupid

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• When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

  Robert Higgs

  Peace, War, Lying

  Robert Higgs (2005). “Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11”, Independent Inst

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