Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the…

— Arthur Henderson

All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.

— George Carlin

Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way…

— Coretta Scott King

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

— David Oderberg

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

— Alfred Adler

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

— Albert Einstein

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

— Stefan Zweig

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

— John F. Kennedy

“Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.”

— Dave Duncan

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the…

— Ludwig von Mises

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

— Edward Abbey

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

— Sun Tzu

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into…

— John F. Kennedy

“Rogers held that there is not one fact or piece of data that will ever make war (or even preparing for war) morally permissible.”

— Michael G. Long

“Little Robin had been brought by Lord Orthallen—although he had the feeling that his lord did not realize it. The boy was a part…

— Mercedes Lackey