Quotes on Make Peace Not War

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to_x000D_ destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.