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If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Address to Congress (April 16, 1945)
War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, U.S. (3 June 1947)
We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969D-Day Order (1944)
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
Wendell Berry1934–2026The Long-Legged House (1969)
We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in — the war for peace.
Yitzhak Rabin1922–1995Speech to the US Congress (26 July 1994)
So immense had been the sacrifices made through so many long years that the South Vietnamese deserved an end- if it had to come to that- with more dignity to it.
William Westmoreland1914–2005A Soldier Reports (1976), p. 396.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.
John Stuart Mill1806–1873“The Contest in America,” Fraser’s Magazine (February 1862)
- Patriotism
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Roosevelt Declares War on Japan (1941)
- America
Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right — not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Cuban Missile Crisis speech
- Freedom
All members of the world community should resolutely discard old stereotypes and motivations nurtured by the Cold War, and give up the habit of seeking each other’s weak spots and exploiting them in their own interests.
Mikhail Gorbachev1931–2022Nobel Address (1991)
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Victory broadcast (1945)
One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.
Peter Kropotkin1842–1921Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
- Good & Evil
Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
- History
We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land.
Yitzhak Rabin1922–1995Excerpts of PM Rabin Knesset Speech (21 September 1993)
The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969D-Day Order (1944)
- Freedom