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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Time Enough for Love (1973)
- Freedom
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled;
The flame that lit the battle’s wreck,
Shone round him o’er the dead.
Felicia Hemans1793–1835Casabianca (1826)In context
- Courage
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
- Money
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Introduction to “On the Blue Water” (April 1936)
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Notes on the Next War (1935)
- Patriotism
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961“In Another Country” in Men Without Women (1927).
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it’s not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Notes on the Next War (1935)
- Life & Death
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Notes on the Next War (1935)
- Economics
- Politics
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book III, Chapter XXVIIIn context
There is no way I am going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussexborn 1984Interview marking his 21st birthday (September 2005)
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
Patrick Henry1736–1799Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
- Freedom
- Life & Death
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry1736–1799Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!
Patrick Henry1736–1799Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
It is according to the dictates of time and fate that We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable.
Hirohito1901–1989Broadcast announcing Japan’s surrender (15 August 1945), official English translation