Great Throughts Treasury

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Henry Havelock Ellis

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

Better | Nothing | War | Wisdom |

Abraham Flexner

Nations... borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Choice | Civilization | Education | Enough | Nations | War | Wisdom |

Abraham Flexner

Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and education

Education | Enough | War | Wisdom |

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Man | Tragedy | War | Wisdom |

Henry Ford

What causes war is not patriotism, not that human beings are willing to die in defense of their dearest ones. It is the false doctrine, fostered by the few, that war spells gain.

Defense | Doctrine | Patriotism | War | Wisdom |

Anatole France, pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault

A people living under the... threat of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It doesn't not haggle over armaments and military expenditures. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is a fine thing for the financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

Discussion | People | War | Wisdom |

Benjamin Franklin

May we never see another war! For in my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace.

Good | Opinion | Peace | War | Wisdom |

Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war or a bad peace.

Good | Peace | War | Wisdom |

Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller

Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

Man | War | Wisdom |

Francis J. Gable

The thing for which we prepare and which we earnestly expect usually comes upon us. Food is prepared to be eaten; clothing is made to be worn; munitions of war are produced to be used in warfare. Just as truly, preparations made for purposes of peace help to bring about the peaceful condition for which they are prepared.

Peace | War | Wisdom |

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux

During war we imprison the rights of man.

Man | Rights | War | Wisdom |

Aldous Leonard Huxley

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous convention of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Convention | Individual | Murder | Politics | War | Wisdom | Murder |

James Hilton

If a child who wanted to be a teacher I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives not less because they may live to see some faction of the battle won.

Battle | Eternal | Greed | Ignorance | Prejudice | War | Wisdom | Child | Teacher |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

No man who witnessed the tragedies of the last war, no man who can imagine the unimaginable possibilities of the next war can advocate war out of irritability or frustration or impatience.

Impatience | Man | War | Wisdom |

Lyndon Johnson, fully Lyndon Baines Johnson, aka LBJ

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war - we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Age | Obligation | Peace | Restraint | Strength | War | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Mankind | War | Will | Wisdom |

Hiram Warren Johnson

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Truth | War | Wisdom |

Andrew Bonar Law

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

Failure | Inevitable | War | Will | Wisdom | Failure |