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A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969News Conference of (11 August 1954)
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart1897–193920 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 34
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Agrarian Justice (1797)
- Ideas
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004Achtung! Vorurteile (2003)
We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (March 17, 1948)
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965Speech before the Senate’s Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program (1948)
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Address to the Senate (22 January 1917)
- Power
In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer who might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.
E. B. White1899–1985“Here Is New York,” Holiday (1948); reprinted in Here is New York (1949)
If you let victory become the end in itself then you’ve gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964Interview by James Cameron, in Picture Post (28 October 1950)
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech to the Cabinet (28 May 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (1983), p. 420
- Courage
Three years ago by a little reflection and patience they could have had a hundred years of peace and prosperity, but they preferred war; very well.
William Tecumseh Sherman1820–1891Letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg.
We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve international disputes by the application of man’s power of reason in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Debating Edward Teller, in The Nuclear Bomb Tests…Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED-TV, San Francisco (20 February 1958).
War makes one realise the relativity of human life and therefore also the law of a ‘more-than-life’, and thus war has always an anti-materialist value, a spiritual value.
Julius Evola1898–1974Metaphysics of War (2007 ed.), p. 21
The Prime Minister must realise that in this country there is a taunt, on everyone’s lips, that if Rommel had been in the British Army, he would still have been a sergeant.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960Speech in the House of Commons (2 July 1942)
- Clever Jabs
One of the most disconcerting issues of our time lies in the fact that modern science, along with miracle drugs and communications satellites, has also produced nuclear bombs.
Wernher von Braun1912–1977Responsible Scientific Investigation and Application (1976)
- Science