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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, Army

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 or democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Democracies Have

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

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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

  Funny, Peace, Military

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Military, Rome

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• 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 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 every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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

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• All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

  George Orwell

  Peace, Lying, Fighting

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Walter Scott

  Games, Sides, Loses

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• I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Views, Mankind

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.372, Penguin

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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, Fighting

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• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Errors, Leader

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

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• There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, Boys, Looks

  1880 Speech at Columbus, Ohio,11 Aug. Quoted in Lloyd Lewis Sherman Fighting Prophet (1932).

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• War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

  Howard Zinn

  Terrorism, Hundred, Peacemaking

  "The Old Way of Thinking". The Progressive, November 2001.

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

  Thomas Paine

  Gambling, Government, Games

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  The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, Gun, Bombs

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

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• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, Wipe, Opponents

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

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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

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humanity, Criminals, Crime

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.370, Tara Publishing

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• All's fair in love and war.

  Francis Edward Smedley

  Love, Life, Tattoo

  Francis Edward SMEDLEY (1854). “Frank Fairlegh; or scenes from the life of a private pupil. By F. E. Smedley. With illustrations ... by G. Cruikshank”, p.434

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• Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

  Euripides

  Soldier, Funny Leadership, Beats

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• There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vices, Essentials, Virtue

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3606, e-artnow

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, Hippie

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• War is the business of barbarians.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, Barbarians, Anti War

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• An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
  [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Home, Army, Use

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