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• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

  James Madison

  Freedom, War, Mean

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• Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Liberty, Alliances

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.425

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Opinion

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• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, War, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Peace, War, Civilization

  Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”

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• It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Real, War

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

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• We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, War, Realizing

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther

  War, Humanity, States

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.332

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• War remains the decisive human failure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Peace, War, Humans

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2004). “The Economics of Innocent Fraud”, Penguin Hardcover

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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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• If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

  Frederick The Great

  War, Army, Thinking

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Military, War, Mankind

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Should Have

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.117

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• All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Lying

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, War, Gun

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

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• What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Integrity, War

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, War, Battle

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, War, Home

  Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Together, Strange

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• War is the father of all things.

  Heraclitus

  Peace, Father, War

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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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 hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.254, Rowman & Littlefield

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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