Peace Not War Quotes - Page 2

• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Veterans Day, Peace, Children

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, War, Serenity

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• People do not make wars; governments do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Government

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

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Negative

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• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Independent

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays, letters, miscellanies”

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• Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Attitude, War

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

  A. J. Muste

  War, Outcomes, Way

  "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

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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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• The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

  James Madison

  War, Liberty, Tyranny Founding Fathers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.451

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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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• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, Freedom, War

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• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

  John Quincy Adams

  Peace, War, America

  "Speech of July 4, 1821". John Quincy Adams " The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotation. Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Mean

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• The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

  Basil O'Connor

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

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• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

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• War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Doe

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• Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Truth, Philosophy

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on

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• To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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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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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, Patriotic, President

  Harry S. Truman (2003). “Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops”, p.106, SIU Press

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• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing

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