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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.
Sep 10, 2025
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you 'Pro' many thingsPro-Peace, Pro-Human, Pro-Evolution, it makes you Pro-Communication, Pro-Diplomacy, Pro-Love, Pro-Understanding, Pro-Forgiveness.
The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
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.
The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.
Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?
Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind.
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.
I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
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.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.