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Antiwar Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
- I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have…
- This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general…
- May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
- Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
- We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not…
More Antiwar Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with… — John Adams
- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
- Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
- If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
- A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. — Joseph Addison
- All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
- It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler