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Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Speech to the Michigan legislature, in Lansing, Michigan (15 May 1952), published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206, much of this was used in speeches of 1951, as quoted in The Twenty-year Revolu
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller1880–1968
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Love
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams1735–1826
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic, Book VIII, 566e.In context
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells1866–1946Things to Come (1936)
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876“The Reaction in Germany” (1842)
- Art
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
Wars are seldom caused by spontaneous hatreds between people, for peoples in general are too ignorant of one another to have grievances and too indifferent to what goes on beyond their borders to plan conquests. They must be urged to the slaughter by politicians who know how to alarm them.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack.
Napoleon1769–1821
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers1879–1935