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  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

    John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin
  • The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

    "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.
  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

    Wisdom   Freedom   Humor  
    "Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858
  • Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

  • You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

    Love   Life   God  
    Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

    War   Luck   Important  
    Robert Rhodes James (1987). “Anthony Eden”
  • Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

    Truth   Patriotism   Doe  
    Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press
  • To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

    Peace   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com
  • There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

    Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan
  • A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

    In B. Adler Churchill Wit (1965) p. 4
  • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

    Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182
  • Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

    Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153
  • The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

    Country   Peace   Freedom  
    Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
  • Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

    Strength   Peace   War  
    Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications
  • You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

    Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press
  • I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

    War   Son   Agriculture  
  • The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

    Country   Military   War  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

    Art   Crazy   War  
    Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, CreateSpace
  • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953
  • Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

    Peace   Real   War  
  • Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

    Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.
  • Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

    Country   War   Simple  
  • Know the enemy and know yourself.

    Fear   Military   War  
    The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)
  • To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

    1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.
  • Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

    Peace   War   History  
    John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474
  • This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

    Children   War   Military  
    Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953
  • What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

    Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142
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