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If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Victory broadcast (1945)
You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman1820–1891Letter to the City of Atlanta (September 1864)
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 6, On Monarchy
If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
We have seen the white men betray the flag and fight to kill the Union; but in all that long, dreary war we never saw a traitor in a black skin.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Speech to the ‘Boys in Blue’ (1880)
- Race
I believe the media can be the greatest force for peace on Earth. Instead, all too often, it is wielded as a weapon of war. That has to be challenged.
Amy Goodmanborn 1957Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016), Introduction
- Journalism
A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.
William Tecumseh Sherman1820–1891Letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg.
Now the trumpet summons us again — not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are — but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
- Liberty
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Letter (5 May 1855), published in Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family (2001), edited by Lynn McDonald, p. 141
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967“The People, Yes” (1936)
Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
Aung San Suu Kyiborn 1945In Quest of Democracy (1991)
- Justice
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986On the Falklands War, as quoted in Time magazine (14 February 1983)
- Clever Jabs
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison1751–1836“Political Observations” (1795-04-20)
- Freedom
The atomic bomb had dwarfed the international issues to complete insignificance.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The World Set Free (1913)