1. “Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.” ~~Arthur Hoppe
2. “After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.” ~~Brooks Atkinson
3. “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” ~~Bertrand Russell
4. “We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.” ~~Benjamin Harrison
5. “No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” ~~Calvin Coolidge
6. “War settles nothing.” ~~Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. “War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.” ~~Chris Hedges
8. “After victory, you have more enemies.” ~~Cicero
9. “The best defense is no offense.” ~~Dr. Ivan Eland
10. “Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. “ ~~Abraham Flexner
11. “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” ~~Abraham Lincoln
12. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” ~~Albert Einstein
13. “A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” ~~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
14. “Violence as a way of gaining power…is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security…” ~~Alfred Adler
15. “Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.” ~~Anne O’Hare McCormick
16. “All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.” ~~Alexis de Tocqueville
17. “Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.” ~~A. Philip Randolph
18. “War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.” ~~Colin Powell
19. “The dangerous patriot…drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.” ~~Colonel James A. Donovan
20. “The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.” ~~Chris Hedges
21. “We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives…inside ourselves.” ~~Albert Camus
22. “No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.” ~~Alexis de Tocqueville
23. “We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.” ~~Dwight D. Eisenhower
24. “Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” ~~Ecclesiastes 9:18
25. “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.” ~~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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