War Quotes - Page 32

• Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Cynical, Politics

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, Differences, Honest

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Mean, Trying, Collaboration

  1938 Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Oct.

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• The more laws, the less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, Law, Justice

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• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  Ramsey Clark

  Peace, World, Crime

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Peace, Teaching, Thinking

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• The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Freedom, Libertarian Party

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

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• Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Arms, France

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• What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Peace, Ceremony, Puberty

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• Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

  Edward Abbey

  Peace, Evil, Political

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, Ubuntu, Path

  Alfred Adler (2005). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1931-1937”, p.128, Alfred Adler Institute

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• If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

  Joan Baez

  Death, Peace, Military

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• Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Limits, Want

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• All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  Quiet, Now And Then, Beats

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• The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

  George D. Prentice

  Rivers, Air, Red

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• War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Shooting, Fancy

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

  Plutarch

  Special, Firsts, States

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• When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three: Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity.

  Theodosia Garrison

  Sacrifice, Wrath, Self

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• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Spirit, Quarrels

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Sacrifice

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.68, Beacon Press

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• It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Peace, Fear

  Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Michigan Legislature in Lansing (May 15, 1952) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Death, Halloween, Ambition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

  Kin Hubbard

  Peace, Ubuntu, Victory

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.139, Indiana University Press

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• I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Peace, Power

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.254, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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