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• War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

  Thomas Mann

  Peace, War, Military

  "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1951.

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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, War, Winning

  Autobiography (1977) pt. 10

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• Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

  Aesop

  Peace, Fear, Food

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.8, Pelekanos Books

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• For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

  John Milton

  War, Endless, Stills

  'On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester' (written 1648, published 1694)

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• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, World

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• Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

  Aristotle

  War, Tyrants, People

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• It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

  Jean Plaidy

  War, People, Suffering

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• Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, War, Believe

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• The sinews of war are infinite money.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, Money, War

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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Freedom Of Speech

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.146, Cornell University Press

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• A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Historical

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

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• I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Views

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.372, Penguin

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• No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Peace, War

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.268, Penguin

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• The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Peace, Military

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.47

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• War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, War, Learning

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• What is more immoral than war?

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Immoral

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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, War

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

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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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• [T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, Peace, War

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• The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, War, Two Sides

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• Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

  Hermann Hesse

  Country, War, Enemy

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• 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

  Peace, War, Mean

  Democracy in America vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 22 (1840) (translation by Henry Reeve)

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• The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Peace, Military, War

  "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.

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• Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Peace, Crazy

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

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• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Military, War

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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