War and Peace

War and Peace

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

- Plato

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. - Demosthenes

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! - Theodore Roosevelt

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. - Mahatma Gandhi

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. - George Washington

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,

it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. - David Friedman

The irony of war is that it is uses man's best to do man's worst.

The only defensible war is a war of defense. - G. K. Chesterton

The only safe and sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.

It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. - Albert Einstein

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

True victory gives love and changes the enemy's heart. - Ueshiba

War does not determine who is right ... only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

War is just scientific murder.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millenia ago.

- Colman McCarthy

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. - David Russell

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King Jr.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers?

Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? - George Wallace

You can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb the world to peace.