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• Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

  Andrew Greeley

  Peace, War, United States

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• The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

  Anthony Gregory

  Peace, Real, War

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• Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

  Anthony Gregory

  Peace, War, Done

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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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• The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

  Chris Hedges

  Peace, Betrayal, War

  Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

  Chris Hedges

  Peace, War, Essence

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• The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

  Chris Hedges

  Peace, War, Next

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.151, PublicAffairs

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• You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Hands, Two

  "Anderson Cooper 360°" with Erica Hill, edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2006.

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• As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

  Craig Murray

  War, Government, Thumbs

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• Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Love You, Christian Love

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

  Art Hoppe

  War, Men, Political

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• If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Peace, War, Defense

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• No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Peace, War, Political

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• Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

  Charles Tilly

  Money, War, Mean

  Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Boys

  Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1914-1920”, p.149, Alfred Adler Institute

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• Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Honor

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• There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

  George Holyoake

  Truth, War, Practice

  George Jacob Holyoake (1850). “The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography, Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney General and the British Clergy”, p.37

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• Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Truth, Worry, Earth

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Truth, Philosophy

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

  Philip Caputo

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Peace

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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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• 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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• War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

  William Cowper

  Wise, Kings, War

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 5 'The Winter Morning Walk' l. 187

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