951 private quotes tagged war

“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.” — John F. Kennedy

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“War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.” — James Madison

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“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.” — George Orwell

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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Morality is contraband in war.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“If we don't end war, war will end us.” — H. G. Wells

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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.” — George Orwell

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“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.” — Albert Camus

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“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!” — Helen Keller

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“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” — Oscar Wilde

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“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” — John F. Kennedy

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“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.” — Albert Camus

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“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“A war between Europeans is a civil war.” — Victor Hugo

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“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“War is a contagion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.” — Ambrose Bierce

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