Best Anti War Wisdom
357 Anti War quotes by 222 unique authors
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
— David Hume
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by…
— Aldous Huxley
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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
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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
— Thomas Jefferson
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
— Thomas Jefferson
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
— Thomas Jefferson
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
— Pope John XXIII
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
— Barbara Jordan
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
— Immanuel Kant
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of…
— John F. Kennedy
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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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