Abandon Quote by Claude Adrien Helvetius

In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made…

— Samuel Adams

“And do not imagine that what we are fighting for is simply the question of freedom or slavery: there is also involved the loss…

— Thucydides

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this…

— King Albert II

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our…

— Edmund Burke

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers…

— William Shakespeare

Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That…

— Nelson Mandela

We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By…

— Pope John XXIII

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment &…

— Thomas Jefferson

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities…

— Chris Hedges

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

— Albert Einstein

If the world was full peace and happiness there would be one man full of evil and greed. but the one thing you should…

— Kathryn Powell

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for…

— John Haynes Holmes