Antiwar Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Funny, Peace, Military

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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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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• 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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• Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, Peace, War

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• There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Blood

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Civilization

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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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• If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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• 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

  Peace, War, Stupid

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• Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

  Ronald Reagan

  Courage, War, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• A people free to choose will always choose peace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, People

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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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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• Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Lying

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Government, Principles

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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, War, Guarantees

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

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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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• 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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• Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Limits

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  The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Peace, War, Party

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

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.394, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

  Francis John McConnell

  Peace, War, Ideas

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Power Corrupts, Magnet

  "Chapterhouse: Dune".

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• Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

  Ron Paul

  War, Thinking, Reason

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