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“When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.”

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Author:U Thant

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”

War Peace Views Mankind Anti War Antiwar Peace War Great War Scourge

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'”

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Book:Inevitable peace

Source: Inevitable peace

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

Source: Two treatises of government

“The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.”

War Government Evil Peace Liberty Worst Mankind Endure Libertarian Anti War Antiwar Bad Government Infliction

Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

“My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.”

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Author:George Washington