Antiwar Quotes - Page 24

• War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, War, Racket

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.5, The Forlorn Press

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• People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, People, Events

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  It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Evil, Looks

  Stonewall Jackson's comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Mary Anna Jackson "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" (p. 141), 1895.

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• Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

  George W. Bush

  War, Taken, Ambition

  "Bush: Islamic Radicalism Doomed to Fail". edition.cnn.com. October 06, 2005.

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• Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our reaction. We're steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we'll have to start displaying scalps.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Blood

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• These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Thinking

  Remarks at Ask President Bush Event in Derry, New Hampshire, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 20, 2004.

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• Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Peace, War, Blame

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• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

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• Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

  Gregory Bateson

  Peace, War, Moving

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• The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

  Hannah Arendt

  War, Practice, World

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, People

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• War is a bankruptcy of policy

  Hans von Seeckt

  War, Policy, Bankruptcy

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• War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  Peace, War, Problem

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• I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Peace, Hate, War

  Sermon in New York on Armistice Day 1933, in Secret of Victorious Living (1934) p. 97

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• War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

  James Madison

  War, Nurse, President

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.452

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• The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Judging

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.451

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• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.43, University of Virginia Press

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• After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Peace, War, Enemy

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• Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Peace, War, Men

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• Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

  Laozi

  Peace, War, Fool

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• Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Organizer, Nationality

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Peace, War, Force

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• All government wars are unjust.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Government

  As quoted in an interview in "Reason" Magazine, February 1973.

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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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