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  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

    John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin
  • One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Second World War (1948) vol. 1, p. viii
  • Fear is the foundation of most governments.

    'Thoughts on Government' (1776)
  • Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

    "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

    Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.13, PublicAffairs
  • It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

    War   Home   Hype  
  • A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

    Freedom   War   Military  
  • We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

    Peace   War   Fighting  
  • The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

    Peace   War   Two Sides  
  • War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

    "The Contest in America", Fraser's Magazine, February 1862.
  • Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

    'A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law' (1765)
  • The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

  • The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

    Country   Military   War  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq had no documented role in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is said that we fought from a moral objection to tyranny - except that we don't seem all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves. Everything is said except the truth: that we rushed into an unnecessary war on a half-baked mission. And that the repercussions of our hubris will shadow us for years.

    War   Men   Years  
  • Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

    "Why I/We Celebrate Buckminster Fuller’s Birthday (July 12, 1895) Every Year" by L. Steven Sieden, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2015.
  • Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

    John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.814, Library of America
  • It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

    "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.
  • Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

    Peace   War   History  
    John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474
  • Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

    War   Fighting   Liberty  
    Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.303, Hackett Publishing
  • Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

    The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777
  • In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.

    War   Mean   Government  
  • Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

    Peace   War   Thinking  
    John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1959). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 1812-1826”
  • America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

  • I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

    War   Heartless   Way  
    Letter to Jane Pierce, March 3, 1863.
  • It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

    Love   Peace   War  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.68, Beacon Press
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