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“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students
“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
Source: Two treatises of government
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”
“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
Source: The Nonviolent Alternative
“Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.”
Source: United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy
“The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism
“Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life
“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”
Source: My American Journey