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- Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark...…
- If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial…
- We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.
- In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
- I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.
- The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton,…
- 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…
- 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.
- The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
- We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
- 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…
- If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would…
- In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
- We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- 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.
- The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
- When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.…
- 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…
- Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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