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- It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus (~375 AD), De Rei Militari
- A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
- Either war is obsolete or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Telegram, 24 May 1946
- 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'.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Second World War (1948)
- One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), Autobiography (1977)
- The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981), Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
- Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
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