War Quotes - Page 33

• I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Peace, Hate, Democracy

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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, Power

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

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• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Eyelashes, Moments

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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, Patriotic

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

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• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

  David Hume

  Peace, Philosophical, Tyrants

  Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Principles, Conquer

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• We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

  Mao Zedong

  Want, Abolition

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.63, China Books

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• After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder. This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist 'Pledge of Allegiance'. It transcends all sense when we are taught the 'Star Spangled Banner', a hymn to war.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Stars, Usa

  "Matriotism" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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• So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about

  Cindy Sheehan

  Kids, Knows, Dies

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do.

  John Fogerty

  Country, Patriotic, People

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• If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Blessed, Law

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• The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!

  Sargent Shriver

  Caring, Opposites, Practice

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• I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever

  Cindy Sheehan

  Believe, Uprising, Support

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• I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Vietnam, Veteran, Vietnam Veteran

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• I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Balance, Important

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• When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Growing Up, Fighting, Gun

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

  Curtis LeMay

  Criminals, Lost, Has Beens

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• But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Dream, Men, Common

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• Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.

  Bernard Lewis

  Desire, Blame, Cold

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• But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

  Rory Bremner

  Country, Sorry, Talking

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• War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

  Aminatta Forna

  People, Survival, Trying

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• Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Military, Fighting, Son

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• There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Excuse, Has Beens

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• I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  People, Baltimore, Helping

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