Anti War Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

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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 J. Maybury

  Peace, War, Rome

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Opinion

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• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

  George Washington

  Military, War, 4th Of July

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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

  Money, War, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, World

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• Peace and not war is the father of all things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Father, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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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

  Peace, War, Government

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Military, War, Mankind

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• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Sunset, Victory And Defeat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Immoral, Concerned

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• The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Fighting

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• War is the father of all things.

  Heraclitus

  Peace, Father, War

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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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

  Peace, Hate, War

  "The Quotable Dwight D. Eisenhower". Book edited by Elsie Gollagher, p. 219, 1967.

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• After victory, you have more enemies.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Enemy, Victory

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• A rational army would run away.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Running, War, Army

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• War is the only game in which both sides lose.

  Walter Scott

  War, Games, Sides

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, War, Philosophical

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• Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

  George Washington

  Memorial Day, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.17

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• How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

  John F. Kerry

  Mistake, Men, Vietnam

  Testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 22 Apr. 1971

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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

  Peace, War, Pieces

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• The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

  George Orwell

  Peace, Political Language, Atrocities Committed

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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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

  Peace, War, Body

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• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Courage, Memorial Day

  Speech at Republican National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 7 July 1952

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