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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
Peace is its own reward.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Often credited to Mahatma Gandhi
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
War should be the only study of a prince.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Atoms for Peace (1953)
Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935
Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don’t ever apologize for anything.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968In a 1955 response to an accusation that he was “disturbing the peace” by his activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, as quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (1982) by Stephen B. Oates
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Warmaking doesn’t stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
CMColman McCarthy1938–2026
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Cicero107–43 BC
We’re in a war, dammit! We’re going to have to offend somebody!
John Adams1735–1826
‘In war-time,’ I said, ‘truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’
Winston Churchill1874–1965Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference (November 30, 1943); in The Second World War, Volume V: Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338
- Truth & Lies