A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

All we are saying is: give peace a chance.

John Lennon

The essence of so-called war prosperity; it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

Ludwig von Mises

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Helen Keller

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Gen. Smedley Butler

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”

Matthew 26:52

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Patrick J. Buchanan

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Paine

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Mahatma Gandhi

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Sen. Robert M. La Follette

War is the business of barbarians.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Posted  October 05, 2005

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