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Any man who sees Europe now must realize that victory in a great war is not something you win once and for all, like victory in a ball game. Victory in a great war is something that must be won and kept won.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Report on the Potsdam Conference (August 9, 1945)
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Worship
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (1953)
- Science
The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Atoms for Peace (1953)
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
- America
The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Civil Disobedience (1849)In context
- Government
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Inaugural Address (1905)
- Justice
We can now take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than anybody has ever known. It does not have to be “you or me,” so selfishness is unnecessary and war is obsolete. This has never been done before.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Nazism and Fascism are thoroughly beaten, but I must admit that their defeat does not mean that barbarism and brutality have been defeated.
Karl Popper1902–1994Utopia and Violence (1947)
- Good & Evil
The long labor of peace is an undertaking for every nation — and in this effort none of us can remain unaligned. To this goal none can be uncommitted.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address to the UN General Assembly (20 September 1963)
I am not pleading for India to practice nonviolence because it is weak. I want her to practice nonviolence being conscious of her strength and power.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India (11 August 1920)
- Power
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
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it.
James Madison1751–1836Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 April 1798); published in The Writings of James Madison (1906) edited by Gaillard Hunt, Vol. 6, pp. 312-14
- Government
- Presidency
Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964“A Tryst with Destiny”, speech to the Constituent Assembly, New Delhi (14 August 1947)
- Freedom