Peace War Quotes - Page 8

• We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Race, Arms

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.214, Beacon Press

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• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Revolution

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Peace, War, Battle

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

  Allen Dulles

  Peace, War, Needs

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• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Peace, War, Criminals

  "The Pathway of Peace". Speech to the Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, Ontario. "The Pathway of Peace : Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as as secretary of state (1921-1925)" by Charles Evans Hughes, September 04, 1923.

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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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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational Life, Mean, Ends

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• The first casualty when war comes is truth.

  Hiram Johnson

  Peace, War, Firsts

  1917 Speech, US Senate.

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• I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

  Thucydides

  Peace, War, Blame

  Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.345, Penguin UK

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• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, People

  Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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• Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Truth, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.84, Beacon Press

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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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• A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

  Plato

  War, Order, Tyrants

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.260, Anchor

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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

  Peace, Real, War

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Memorial Day, Peace

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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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

  Peace, Freedom, War

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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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• Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  March On Washington, Soul, Height

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!

  Jonathan Larson

  Peace, War, Opposites

  "Rent". Musical by Jonathan Larson, 1996.

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• A people free to choose will always choose peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, People

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

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Peace, Jobs

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• 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

  Travel, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.367

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