Best Antiwar Proverbs
356 Antiwar quotes by 213 unique authors
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
— 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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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 guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great…
— John F. Kennedy
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they…
— Ellen Key
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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
— Robert E. Lee
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
— John Lennon
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
— Walter Lippmann
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
— John Locke
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