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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong1893–1976“Problems of War and Strategy”, 1938.
- Guns
Without a People’s army, the people have nothing.
Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 9, originally published in On Coalition Government (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, pp. 296-97.
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Tamburlaine (c. 1588), Act I, scene ii, line 132
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
George C. Marshall1880–1959Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army (1 September 1945)
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
George C. Marshall1880–1959Address at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (June 1941)
- Motivation & Goals
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
George C. Marshall1880–1959Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army (1 September 1945)
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.
George C. Marshall1880–1959The Marshall Plan Speech (1947)
- Government
It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.
George C. Marshall1880–1959The Marshall Plan Speech (1947)
- Economics
Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
John McCain1936–2018Campaign ad, quoted in Newsweek (23 June 2008), p. 21
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain1936–2018Speech to the American Red Cross “Promise of Humanity” conference (6 May 1999).
Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.
CMColman McCarthy1938–2026
Warmaking doesn’t stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
CMColman McCarthy1938–2026
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
John McCrae1872–1918In Flanders Fields (1915)In context
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae1872–1918In Flanders Fields (1915)In context
- Life & Death
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
William McKinley1843–1901First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897)