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• Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Bills, Paid

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• Boys are the cash of war.

  John Ciardi

  Boys, Cash

  John Ciardi (1966). “This strangest everything”

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• War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

  Colin Powell

  Peace, Military, Should Have

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

  Nathanael Greene

  Art, Military, Fighting

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press

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• The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  Blessing, Law, Development

  Friedrich von Bernhardi (1914). “Germany and the Next War”

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• I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Believe, Heroism, Kind

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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Business

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

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• If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Suicide, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.1098, Best Books on

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• War remains the decisive human failure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Peace, Humans, Remains

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2004). “The Economics of Innocent Fraud”, Penguin Hardcover

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• I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

  Jim Garrison

  Peace, Names, America

  Playboy interview, October, 1967.

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• A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Peace, Democracies Have

  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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• War is a defeat for humanity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Humanity, Defeat

  Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Political, Politics, Way

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• Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Responsibility, Government

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, Pride, Numbers

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.196, NYU Press

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• If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

  George Washington

  Peace, Money, Powerful

  George Washington (1837). “Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.38

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Country, Peace

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

  John Milton

  Death, Paradise, Reign

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 263 (1667)

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• Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Party, Acceptance, Survival

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Racket, Vicious

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.5, The Forlorn Press

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• War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Fear, Men

  "On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity".

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• Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Kings, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.36, Algonquin Books

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• What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Differences, Names

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

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• War determines not who is right but who is left.

  Sidney Greenberg

  Determine, Left

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• War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  Military, Mean, Fighting

  "May I Quote You, General Forrest?". Book by Randall Bedwell, 1996.

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