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Peace War Quotes (page 8)

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and... Oscar Wilde
Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thyfriends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it... deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer, a cooling fan of feathers. Thomas Dekker
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand. Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land. Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave. O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Francis Scott Key
Stephen Ambrose quote: "We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace... Stephen Ambrose
Jeanette Rankin quote: "The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist..."
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. Jeanette Rankin
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace"
Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace Thomas Jefferson
Herodotus quote: "No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, in which,..."
No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus
The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace. Dorothy Dunnett
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? Ursula K. Le Guin
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. Marcus Tullius Cicero
John Dewey quote: "The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic."
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic. John Dewey
George W. Bush quote: "No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at..."
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace. George W. Bush
July 1936There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire. A love story is not about those who lose their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing - not the wisdom of sleep or the... Michael Ondaatje
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening Arundhati Roy
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. James Madison

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