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Quotes on War
Quotes About War and International Relations
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
- Benjamin Frankin
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
- Alexander Solshanitsya
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”
- Dwight Eisenhower
"In total, during the first eighty-eight years of this century, almost 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is as though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not of germs."
- Dr. R. J. Rummel, Death by Government.
“Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to handle conflict through peaceful means.”
- Ronald Reagan
“Friendships and commerce with all nations. Alliance with none.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“It is not we non-interventionists who are isolationists. The real isolationists are those who impose sanctions and embargos on countries and peoples across the globe, and who choose to use force overseas to promote democracy… a counterproductive approach that actually leads the U.S. to be more resented and more isolated in the world.”
- Ron Paul
“Nothing will end war, unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
- Albert Einstein
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
- Benjamin Frankin
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
- Alexander Solshanitsya
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”
- Dwight Eisenhower
"In total, during the first eighty-eight years of this century, almost 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people. It is as though our species has been devastated by a modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not of germs."
- Dr. R. J. Rummel, Death by Government.
“Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to handle conflict through peaceful means.”
- Ronald Reagan
“Friendships and commerce with all nations. Alliance with none.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“It is not we non-interventionists who are isolationists. The real isolationists are those who impose sanctions and embargos on countries and peoples across the globe, and who choose to use force overseas to promote democracy… a counterproductive approach that actually leads the U.S. to be more resented and more isolated in the world.”
- Ron Paul
“Nothing will end war, unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
- Albert Einstein
