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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dream, Gun, Remembrance

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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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, Winning

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

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, 4th Of July, Violence And War

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• The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

  James Forrestal

  Military, Mean, Marine

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• When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, Politics, Progressive

  Le Diable et le bon Dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord, 1951) act 1, first tableau

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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, Men, Blood

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

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• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Humanity, Facts

  Speech of at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Feet, Understanding

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  If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

  James Madison

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

  George Washington

  Memorial Day, 4th Of July, Patriotism

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.17

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• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, Guarantees, Weapons

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Winning, Tyrants, Ideas

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

  Agatha Christie

  Peace, Winning, Feelings

  Autobiography (1977) pt. 10

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  Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Peace, Congratulations

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

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• Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Peace, Doe

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.35, Penguin

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• War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

  William Cowper

  Wise, Kings, Games

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 5 'The Winter Morning Walk' l. 187

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• We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

  William Wallace

  Country, Peace, Freedom

  Statement before the Battle of Stirling Bridge on September 11, 1297. "History of Scotland". by Patrick Fraser Tytler, p. 121, 1841.

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• A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

  Plato

  Order, Tyrants, People

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.260, Anchor

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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Ubuntu, Justice

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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• I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Flesh, Bones

  William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.12

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