Antiwar Quote by Aristotle

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in…

— Daron Malakian

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition,…

— Tacitus

The only reason an empire ever fights wars is to maintain empire.

— Abby Martin

They won the war but lost the peace,

— Jonathan Maberry

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

— Adolf Hitler

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

— Anonymous

I recognize no empire of this present age.

— Paul Speratus

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

— Thomas Jefferson

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon

“The military failure of the old empire was subsequently not mourned as an outward loss but celebrated as an inward gain.”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

— Jacqueline Winspear

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

— Thomas Jefferson