Causes Of War Quotes - Page 2

• If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Hate, Ubuntu

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, Hate, War

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• I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Office, Favors

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

  Jerry Pournelle

  War, Smart, Names

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• Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

  Jasper Fforde

  War, Causes, Excuse

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Party, Duration

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

  David Lloyd George

  War, Machines, Cauldrons

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• It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Party, Giving

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.286

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• War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Hands, Years

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• Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

  Ludwig Quidde

  War, Moving, Usual

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• The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.

  Eustace Mullins

  War, Slavery, Causes

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• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Believe, Struggle

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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