War Quotes - Page 6

• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

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

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• There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Home, Fighting

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Believe, Defense

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

  Bennett Cerf

  Peace, Age, Anti War

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• Politics is the womb in which war develops.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, Womb, Anti War

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Farewell, Differences

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Fighting, Government

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• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, May

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.524, Best Books on

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• Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Honor

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

  Euripides

  Peace, Hate, Men

  Euripides (1968). “Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore”

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• Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

  E. M. Forster

  Peace, Incredibles, Quarrels

  "Howard's End".

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• Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

  Sigmund Freud

  Peace, Men, Civilised Society

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

  Daniel Goleman

  Peace, Weight, Buried

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• There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

  George Orwell

  Winning, Differences, Progress

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Money, Motivation

  Prospects on the Rubicon (1787)

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• Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, Stupid, Lust

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• There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Peace, Lying, People

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• Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, Lying, Principles

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Benjamin Spock

  Peace, Children, Numbers

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• The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

  Hugo Black

  Peace, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". Concurring opinion, 1971.

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• How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Pieces, Despicable

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• The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Religious, Looks, World

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.1, HarperCollins UK

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• Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

  Thomas S. Power

  Peace, Jobs, Military

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• The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

  George McGovern

  Two, Iraq, Vietnam

  "George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war". www.latimes.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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