No War Quotes - Page 2

• Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

  Ronald Reagan

  Courage, War, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Yield

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Presidential

  "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.

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• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  George Washington

  Travel, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.367

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• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  Carl Sandburg

  Peace, War, Giving

  The People, Yes pt. 23 (1936). The popular form of this expression was crystallized when Charlotte Keyes published an article titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came?" in McCall's, Oct. 1966.

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• The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Peace, War

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.60, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Hurt, War

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's first public talk in Saanen, Switzerland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. July 14, 1974.

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• The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

  Aristide Briand

  Peace, Writing, Gun

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• Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  War, Answers, Carrie

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.184, Northwestern University Press

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• There's no war that will end all wars.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, War, Ends

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, War

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Would Be, Conviction

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, Xist Publishing

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• Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

  David Dellinger

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

  Roseanne Barr

  Funny, Running, Military

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• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  War, Long, People

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded”, p.189

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• I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

  Mark Burnett

  Real, War, People

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships". Interview with Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Blood

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

  Ellen Key

  Teamwork, Peace, Military

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• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Peace

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Laws are silent in time of war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  War, Philosophical, Law

  Pro Milone ch. 11

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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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• If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  George F. Richards

  Love, Jesus, Children

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• Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire.

  Sarah Monette

  Stars, War, Passion

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• In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, War, Pride

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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