Antiwar Quotes - Page 31

• The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, War, Home

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Real, War, Anger

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• People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery to be imposed on them without resorting to a defensive war are inevitably doomed to years of death and suffering-and far more of each than any war would bring to them....The army doesn't exist that can annihilate men in their own land-not if they love it sufficiently.

  Kenneth Roberts

  War, Army, Winning

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• Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Democracy, Parliament

  "The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear" by Norman Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2006.

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