Summer: War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is God-like in man. Mussolini: War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to face it.Ĭ. UNESCO constitution: Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.Įrasmus: The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Ponsonby: When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty. von Bernhadi: War is a biological necessity.Ī. Heraclitus: War is the father of all changes.į. Machiavelli: There are two ways of contending, by law and by force the first is proper to men the second to beasts but because many times the first is insufficient, recourse must be had to the second.Ĭlausewitz: War is the continuation of politics by other means.įrancis Meechan: Men are at war with one another because each man is at war with himself. Jefferson: Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.Ĭardinal Richelieu: First, all means to conciliate failing that, all means to crush. Thucydides: To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action at your side. And as the winds which sweep over the ocean prevent the decay that would result from its perpetual calm, so war protects the people from the corruption which an everlasting peace would bring upon it.įlavius Vegetius Renatus: Let him who desires peace prepare for war. Hegel: War has the deep meaning that by it the ethical health of nations is preserved and their finite aims uprooted. Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow!īacon: A civil war is like the heat of a fever but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health. Decatur: Our country: in her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country, right or wrong!ĭolores Ibarruri: It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.īyron: Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not. Oscar Wilde: Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.Įinstein: Nationalism is an infantile disease. Guy de Masupassant: Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Samuel Johnson: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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