"After each war there is a little less democracy left to save." ...... [View all]

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....... -- Brooks Atkinson


"Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed." -- Bruce Springsteen


"The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment." -- Chris Hedges


"How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?" -- Dwight D. Eisenhower


"All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished." -- Eleanor Roosevelt


"History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse." -- Eric Alterman


"No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people." -- Eugene Debs


"War is just a racket...I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else." -- Smedley Butler


"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." -- George Orwell


"War is a bankruptcy of policy." -- Hans Van Seeckt


"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H.L. Mencken


"How can you make a war on terror if war itself is terrorism?" -- Howard Zinn


"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution." -- John F. Kennedy


"You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!" -- Leo Tolstoy


"We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King Jr.


"It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick." -- Noam Chomsky


"All warfare is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu


"He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." -- Thomas Paine


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