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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

The Americans will side with the Ukrainian right… Both do not want Zelensky cutting a deal with the Russians that makes it look like the Russians won.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

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.

War’s tragedy is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force…Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

At least we’re getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

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.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.