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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
Laws are silent in times of war (in midst of arms).
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The only excuse for war is that we may live unharmed in peace.
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Our flag stands for "liberty and justice for all." Our flag must never be misused or defiled as a bandana for war crimes, as a gag against the people's freedom of speech and conscience or as a fig leaf to hide the shame of charlatans in high public office, who violate our Constitution, our laws and our founding fathers' framework for accountable, responsive government.
Conscience | Freedom of speech | Freedom | Government | Justice | Liberty | Office | People | Public | Shame | Speech | War |
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, and the discord of families.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
War in our own civilization is as good an illustration as one can take of the destructive lengths to which the development of a culturally selected trait may go. If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
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