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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
~Abba Eban

About the quote: Israeli diplomat (1915-2002)

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
~Abraham Flexner

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
~Abraham Lincoln

Military glory—that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood—that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy…
~Abraham Lincoln

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era—a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
~Admiral James D. Watkins

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
~Adolph Hitler

In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
~Aesop

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

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~A. J. P. Taylor

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
~A. J. P. Taylor

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
~A. J. P. Taylor

Wars based on principle are far more destructive…the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
~Alan Watts

About the quote: from the book “The Way of Zen”

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

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
~Albert Camus

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
~Albert Camus

When a war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid, it can’t last long.” But though a war may be “too stupid,” that doesn’t prevent its lasting.
~Albert Camus

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
~Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
~Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
~Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
~Albert Einstein

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~Albert Einstein

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

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~Albert Einstein

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
~Albert J. Nock

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

The next war … may well bury Western civilization forever.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us…than the need for any external expansion of our power.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

About the quote: This quote is often mis-attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev, who merely quoted the remark from Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel prize Harvard address.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
~Alexander Berkman

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
~Alexander Berkman

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
~Alexander Hamilton

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
~Alexander Pope

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
~Alfred Adler

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory … and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
~Alfred Adler

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
~Alfred Adler

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
~Alfred Adler

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
~Alfred Adler

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
~Alfred Adler

…Violence as a way of gaining power…is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security…
~Alfred Adler

At least we’re getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
~Allen Dulles

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
~Ambrose Bierce

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three “small” wars…we lost all three of them and for the same reason—hubris.
~Andrew Greely

About the quote: Andrew Greely is a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. You can read his articles at http://www.suntimes.com/index/greeley.html

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
~Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
~Anne O’Hare McCormick

A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
~Anonymous (German)

About the quote: (quote from ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
~Anthony Gregory

About the quote: Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents…
~Anthony Gregory

About the quote: Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
~A. Philip Randolph

About the quote: Randolph (1889-1979) was an African American civil rights leader. (quote from ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
~A pirate, from St. Augustine’s “City of God”

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
~Arthur Hoppe

About the quote: Hoppe (1925-2000) was an American writer. (quote from ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
~Ayn Rand

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
~Ayn Rand

Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths…I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
~Barbara Bush

About the quote: Mrs. Bush spoke these words on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” March 18, 2003.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
~Barbara Ehrenreich

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

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
~Barbara Tuchman

You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.
~Barry Goldwater

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
~Basil O’Connor

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
~Benjamin Disraeli

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
~Benjamin Franklin

About the quote: Speaking to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
~Benjamin Franklin

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
~Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
~Benjamin Franklin

I hope….that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats…
~Benjamin Franklin

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
~Benjamin Harrison

About the quote: from an 1888 address to Congress

The Atomic Age is here to stay—but are we?
~Bennett Cerf

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
~Bernard M. Baruch

War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
~Bertrand Russell

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
~Bertrand Russell

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?
~Blaise Pascal

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
~Brendan Behan

Peace is constructed, not fought for.
~Brent Davis

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.
~Brooks Atkinson

About the quote: Atkinson was an American journalist who lived from 1864-1984. (quote from ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
~Bruce Springsteen

About the quote: This was part of Springsteen’s introduction to his 1985 version of Edwin Starr’s song ‘War.’

Coercive practices that threaten our neighbor(s) also threaten us.
~Butler Shaffer

The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.
~Butler Shaffer

In this war – as in others – I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
~Butler Shaffer

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
~Calvin Coolidge

Politics is the womb in which war develops.
~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
~Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

About the quote: from “The Spirit of Laws” (1748)

A rational army would run away.
~Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

About the quote: Commonly known just as ‘Montesquieu,’ Charles (1869-1755) was a social commentator and thinker of the French Enlightenment.

The voice of protest…is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum…is bidding all men…obey in silence the tyrannous word of command.
~Charles Eliot Norton

If a war be undertaken…before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
~Charles Eliot Norton

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
~Charles Evans Hughes

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
~Charles-Louis De Secondat

About the quote: From “The Spirit of Laws,” 1748

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat- including men—from reluctant citizens…
~Charles Tilly

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
~Charles V of France

The politicians in this world… have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.
~Charley Reese

We…are not really free if we can’t control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
~Charley Reese

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
~Charley Reese

War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.
~Chaz Bufe

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
~Chris Hedges

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
~Chris Hedges

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
~Chris Hedges

After victory, you have more enemies.
~Cicero

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
~Clarence Darrow

Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant.
~C.L. Montague

About the quote: Quote from “Among the Dead Cities,” by A.C. Grayling (Walker & Co., 2006).

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
~Colin Powell

Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism…which equates the national honor with military victory.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

The dangerous patriot…drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

The dangerous patriot…is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
~Condoleeza Rice

About the quote: Comment trying to convince mideast policy makers Russia, the EU and the UN to stop aid to the new Hamas Palestinian government; 1/30/06.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
~Congressman Ron Paul

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
~Congressman Ron Paul

As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn’t true.
~Craig Murray

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised “for the good of its victims” may be the most oppressive.
~C. S. Lewis

Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.
~C.S. Lewis

About the quote: Lewis (1898-1963) was an Irish author and scholar, most famous for his ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ series. (From ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
~Daisaku Ikeda

About the quote: From his proposals for peace. Ikeda is President of Soka Gakkai International

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute…
~Dalai Lama

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

When the largest industry in the world is no longer War, I will accept Darwin’s theory of Evolution.
~Dale S. Mugford

Today the real test of America’s power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it.
~Dale Turner

About the quote: from an article in The Seattle Times, 1/11/03.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
~Daniel Goleman

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.
~Daniel O’Connell

Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
~David Borenstein

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It’s like having a war on jealousy.
~David Cross

About the quote: Cross is a comedian, most well known for his roles on the television series “Arrested Development” and “Mr. Show.” This quote is from his 2002 comedy album.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
~David Friedman

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny…
~David Hume

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
~David Lloyd

War creates peace like hate creates love.
~David L. Wilson

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
~Davy Crockett

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
~Denis Diderot

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.
~Dick Cheney

About the quote: Speaking to the Discovery Institute after the first Gulf War, on 8/14/1992, when he was Secretary of Defense.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
~Donald Rumsfeld

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
~Donald Rumsfeld

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
~Dorothy Thompson

Peace…is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle.
~Dorothy Thompson

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
~Dorothy Thompson

Dress it as we may…huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
~Douglas Jerrold

The best defense is no offense.
~Dr. Ivan Eland

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Rules of engagement” are a set of guidelines for murder.
~Dr. Teresa Whitehurst

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
~Dr. Wayne Dyer

Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.
~Duke of Wellington

War settles nothing.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours…must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can’t have this kind of war. There just aren’t enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

About the quote: from 1953

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
~E. B. White

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
~Ecclesiastes 9:18

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
~Edmund Burke

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~Edward Abbey

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other—instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
~Edward Abbey

About the quote: A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.

A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~Edward Abbey

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
~Edward Abbey

About the quote: A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~Edward Everett

As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will remain the vice of the most exalted characters.
~Edward Gibbon

Violence is an admission that one’s ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
~Edward M. Kennedy

About the quote: Kennedy (b. 1932) is a U.S. Senator (D, MA). (from ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
~Edward R. Murrow

All the gods are dead except the god of war.
~Eldridge Cleaver

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

About the quote: from “My Day,” February 7, 1939

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

About the quote: Roosevelt (1884-1962) was the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and an outspoken political activist in her own right. (From ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
~Elias Canetti

My theory is, strong people don’t need strong leaders.
~Ella Baker

About the quote: Baker (1903-1986) was an African American civil rights worker. (quote from ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

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

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
~E. M. Forster

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
~Enoch Powell

The first casualty of war is not truth, but perspective. Once that’s gone, truth, like compassion, reason, and all the other virtues, wanders around like a wounded orphan.
~Ente Grillenhaft

About the quote: from “Treatise on Reason and Hysteria”

War is the blackest villainy of which human nature is capable.
~Erasmus

Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to the inexperienced).
~Erasmus, the 16th-century scholar

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.
~Eric Alterman

About the quote: Alterman is an American journalist, born in 1960. (quote from ‘The Anti-War Quote Book,’ edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

A hospital alone shows what war is.
~Erich Maria Remarque

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
~Ernest Hemingway

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
~Ernest Hemingway

About the quote: from “Notes on the Next War,” published in Esquire Magazine, 1935.

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

The 1st panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the 2nd is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; a permanent ruin.
~Ernest Hemingway

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
~Ernie Pyle

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
~Eugene Debs

About the quote: (1855-1926)

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
~Euripides

Wars should be over in three days or less…and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
~Evan Thomas

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’
~Eve Merriam

‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
~FA Hayek

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
~Francis John McConnell

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.
~Francis John McConnell

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
~Frank Chodorov

The State acquires power… and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
~Frank Chodorov

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
~Frank Chodorov

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
~Frank Herbert

It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.
~Frank Herbert

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
~Frank Kent

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
~Frederick Douglass

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
~Frederick the Great

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.
~Fred Reed

About the quote: You can read Fred Reed’s articles on LewRockwell.com: http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed-arch.html

When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.
~Fredric Bastiat

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
~Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

If, finally, violence meets with violence, we have confirmation of the age old adage that war though it kills many men, makes many more men evil.
~Fritz Medicus

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
~Garet Garrett

With no notice to the American people…this country entered the war…Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.
~Garet Garrett

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
~Garet Garrett

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
~Gary Wills

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
~General Colin Powell

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
~General Douglas MacArthur

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