"What a cruel thing is war: to separate……" — Robert E. Lee

More Antiwar Quotes

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• 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… — Edward Abbey
• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — 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… — 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

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