Check out these great 100 anti-war quotes. Please spread them around.
http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2010/0 ... uotes.html
Here are my favorite ones by America's Founding Fathers:
2. "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." -James Madison
3. "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison
4. "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. " -James Madison
5. "Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other." -James Madison
6. "The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war." -James Madison
7. "It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." -James Madison
10. "The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force." -Thomas Jefferson
11. "Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other." -Thomas Jefferson
12. "I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind." -Thomas Jefferson
14. "If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest." -Thomas Jefferson
15. "Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government." -Thomas Jefferson
16. "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." -Thomas Jefferson
17. "A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit." -Thomas Jefferson
19. "War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer." -Thomas Jefferson
20. "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." -Thomas Jefferson
21. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." -George Washington
29. "A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang." -Benjamin Franklin
34. "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
35. "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war." -John Adams
Great anti-war quotes by Ronald Reagan:
37. "A people free to choose will always choose peace." -Ronald Reagan
40. "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." -Ronald Reagan
41. "...no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology." -Ronald Reagan
42. "People do not make wars; governments do." -Ronald Reagan
Anti-war quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the most experienced US military generals and former US President.
44. "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
47. "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
48. "Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
51. "There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
52. "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
More great anti-war quotes:
58. "Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives." -Ayn Rand
60. "All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it." -Alexis de Tocqueville
63. "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it." -George Orwell
68. "All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." -George Orwell
70. "What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood." -Aldous Huxley
73. "In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful." -Leo Tolstoy