Antiwar Quotes - Page 7

• As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Immoral, Concerned

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Money, War

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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• 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

  Peace, War, Unjust

  Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Ed., and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.483

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• War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Political

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Invention

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• The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Fighting

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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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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• We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Military, War, Party

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• A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Order

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

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• Peace and not war is the father of all things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Father, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Father, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.48, VM eBooks

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• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Revolution

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• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Order

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

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• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Sunset, Victory And Defeat

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, War, Military

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• War would end if the dead could return.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Peace, Military, War

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther

  War, Humanity, States

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.332

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• The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, War, Successful

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.10, Algora Publishing

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• Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, Anti War

  "Bush Speaks in Milwaukee". transcripts.cnn.com. October 03, 2003.

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• War is the father of all things.

  Heraclitus

  Peace, Father, War

  Heraclitus, G. S. Kirk (1954). “Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Military, War, Mankind

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• In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Political, Politics

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• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Peace, War

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

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