951 private quotes tagged war

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.” — George Orwell

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“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.” — H. L. Mencken

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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.” — James Madison

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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” — George Washington

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“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” — Albert Einstein

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

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“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.” — Winston Churchill

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

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“Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” — Plato

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