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Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963UN speech
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
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to John Sinclair (1798)
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way ‘til you can.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Non-Violence in Peace and War, 1942, Vol. 1, Ch. 142
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Abigail Adams (12 May 1780)
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book X, 1177b.4
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Reflects on Working Toward Peace, (essay, Santa Clara University, retrieved August 2012).
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington1732–1799Farewell Address (1796)
War⁠—an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington1732–1799
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill1874–1965From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.
- Politics
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790