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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~Abraham Lincoln
In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
~Alexander Pope
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
~A. J. P. Taylor
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
~Abraham Flexner
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
~Abraham Lincoln
Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
~Abraham Lincoln
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
~Admiral James D. Watkins
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
~Adolph Hitler
In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
~Aesop
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
~Agatha Christie
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~A. J. P. Taylor
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
~A. J. P. Taylor
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
~A. J. P. Taylor
Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
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
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camu
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
~Albert Camus
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.
~Albert Camus
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
~Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality.
~Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
~Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~Albert Einstein
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
Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~Albert Einstein
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
~Albert Einstein
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~Albert Einstein
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
~Albert J. Nock
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
~Aldous Huxley
The next war ... may well bury Western civilization forever.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
~Alexander Berkman
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
~Alexander Berkman
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
~Alexander Hamilton
peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
~Alexander Pope
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
~Alfred Adler
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory . . . and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
~Alfred Adle
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
~Alfred Adler
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
~Alfred Adler
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
~Alfred Adler
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
~Alfred Adler
Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...
~Alfred Adler
At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
~Allen Dulles
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
~Ambrose Bierce
Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason--hubris.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
~Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
~Anne O'Hare McCormick
A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
~Anonymous (German
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
~A. Philip Randolph
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
~A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"
Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
~Arthur Hoppe
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
~Ayn Rand
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
~Ayn Rand
Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
~Barbara Bush
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
~Barbara Ehrenreich
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
~Barbara Jord
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
~Barry Goldwater
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
~Basil O'Connor
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
~Benjamin Disraeli
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
~Benjamin Franklin
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
~Benjamin Franklin
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
~Benjamin Franklin
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin
nidamika
06-23-2011, 10:08 AM
really great post...
Abewsha
08-25-2011, 08:25 AM
superb sharing...!!!
Hiffza
08-25-2011, 08:54 AM
fantastic post dear..
*NRB*
12-23-2011, 04:03 PM
Agree..
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