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• You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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• It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

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• Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

  Sun Tzu

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• When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

  Jean Paul Sartre

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• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Martin Luther King Jr

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• There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Howard Zinn

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• War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

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• War is what happens when language fails.

  Margaret Atwood

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• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [1953]

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers,the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• War is elevating because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state.

  Heinrich von Treitschke

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• War is a national evil inclination.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

  John Arbuthnot Fisher

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• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things, which enable its citizens to live, but the things, which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  Simone Weil

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• In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

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• For a war to be just three things are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

  Thomas Aquinas

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• Child of G-d, therefore children of G-d, therefore brothers. All wars are civil wars.

  Eric Gill

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