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• Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Battle, Demand

  "Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words".

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• A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Peace, War

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

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• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Men, Spirit

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Views

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

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• The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Home

  Thomas F. Jackson, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice”, p.319, University of Pennsylvania Press

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  No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Peace

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• How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Pieces

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• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Invention

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• If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Inspiration

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Political

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. 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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• A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

  Henri Barbusse

  Suicide, War, Fighting

  "Under Fire". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1916.

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• If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, World

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• All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, War, Mean

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

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Revolution

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• War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Punishment

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.135, Algora Publishing

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• As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Immoral, Concerned

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.48, VM eBooks

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• [T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, Peace, War

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• If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Greatest Victory

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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