Just war Quote by Theodore Roosevelt Download Open image “A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace” — Theodore Roosevelt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Just war Long Long run Long runs Men Peace Prosperous Running Soul War
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Peace has its price: your head and heart; less than that is war. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory,… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war… — Rosalie Bertell Copy Share Image
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our greatest values:… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image