War Quotes - Page 31

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, Peace, Mean

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• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Peace, Independent, Health

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

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• Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Peace

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• Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Peace, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hero, Soldier, Literature

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• The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Liberty, Libertarian

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

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• To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

  Thomas Paine

  Funny, Motivation, Government

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.160

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• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, Fall, Inspiration

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

  Robert M. T. Hunter

  Civilization, Foundation, Slavery

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• Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Evil, World, Machinery

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• He who wants peace must prepare for war.

  Claudius

  Want

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• Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

  Thomas Sowell

  Marine, Thinking, Choices

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• It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Study, One Thing

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.61, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

  Chris Hedges

  Giving, Want, Rise Above

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.14, PublicAffairs

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• A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Fall, Two, Hunters

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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

  Blood, Hands, People

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• How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

  Michael Ignatieff

  People, Invisible

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• Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability

  Timothy Geithner

  Thinking, Want, Judgment

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• To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Defeat, Enough

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• War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Peace, Intelligent, Insomnia

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• The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

  Homer

  Chance, Slayer, Equal

  Homer (1898). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• Take thou thy arms and come with me,
  For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive
  To air our cause, although we be but two.
  Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,
  And we can combat even with the brave.

  Homer

  Men, Air, Two

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• O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

  John Fletcher

  Blood, People, Sick

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• An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Peace, Empires, Anti 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, Party, Want Something

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