Quotes on War from History

[wildflower]

DUers,

I've seen many salient historical quotes on war posted here to DU over the years. Below are a few that were among the quotes Peace Pilgrim used to carry around in her tunic. Do you have any favorites you'd like to add?

Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed."

John F. Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

Lyndon B. Johnson: "The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure."

Pope John Paul II: "In the face of the man-made calamity that every war is, one must affirm and reaffirm, again and again, that the waging of war is not inevitable or unchangeable. Humanity is not destined to self-destruction. Clashes of ideologies, aspirations and needs can and must be settled and resolved by means other than war and violence."

-wildflower

[BillZBubb]

1. One of my all time faves

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

- James Madison, Political Observations, 1795


Madison was the 'father' of the US Constitution. I love to run this one up against Freepers pushing the Busholini line.

[wildflower]

3. Thanks, that is excellent and so true; I hadn't heard it before. n/t

[Ranec]

2. Sure,

Martin Luther King, Jr. "We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate."

Joseph Campbell, "...And the only myth that is going to be worth thinking about in the immediate future is one that is talking about the planet, not the city, not these people, but the planet, and everybody on it. That's my main thought for what the future myth is going to be. ..."

And finally,

JFK, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[GreenPoet64]

4. Thank you n/t