I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- John Adams
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
- Isaac Asimov
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
- Joan Baez
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War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
- Omar N. Bradley
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar N. Bradley
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Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
- Stuart Chase
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?
- Gregory Clark
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
- Norman Cousins
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
- Salvador Dali
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas A. Edison
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
- Albert Einstein
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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
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- Henry Havelock Ellis
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
- Euripides
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
- David G. Farragut
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All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
- Francois Fenelon
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
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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
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Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.
- George Pickett Gettysburg
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
- Ulysses S. Grant
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
- Ernest Hemingway
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
- George Herbert
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
- Napoleon Hill
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
- Adolf Hitler
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
- Herbert Hoover
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The first casualty when war comes is truth.
- Hiram Johnson
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I have not yet begun to fight!
- John Paul Jones
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
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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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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
- Henry A. Kissinger
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What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
- Robert E. Lee
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann
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Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
- Colman McCarthy
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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
- George McGovern
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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
- John Stuart Mill
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"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
- James Morrow
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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
- Jose Narosky
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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
- Richard M. Nixon
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- George S. Patton
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
- Albert Pike
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
- Plato
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.
- Colin Powell
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
- Herbert V. Prochnow
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin
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I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
- Ronald Reagan
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers
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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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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell
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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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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.
- Louis Simpson
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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
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin
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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
- Charles Sumner
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
- Barbara Tuchman
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All war is deception.
- Sun Tzu
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
- H. G. Wells
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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
- William C. Westmoreland
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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
- William C. Westmoreland
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It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
- Fred Woodworth
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